Mungo Soggot The co-chair of the Law Society of South Africa is embroiled in a disciplinary probe in which he is being accused of mishandling cases involving accident victims. The attorney, Willie Seriti, was due to appear before the Transvaal Law Society’s disciplinary panel on Wednesday, but sent a fax at 8.50am saying he was […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM: MOROKA Swallows coach Walter Rautmann on Wednesday joined a growing list of people claiming Birds players have been accepting bribes to throw certain matches, and which may have resulted in Swallows losing a crucial league match. Rautmann said there could be substance to claims that former Swallows directors bribed key players to deliberately […]
Ann Eveleth Northern Province pensioners suing the state were rounded up in a police van and forced – by senior welfare officials – to sign documents they could not read, their lawyers claimed this week. Pretoria Legal Resources Centre lawyer (LRC)Nick de Villiers said about 37 clients involved in legal action to force the state […]
THURSDAY, 12.15PM: UNITED Crickate Board MD Dr Ali Bacher on Wednesday announced sweeping changes to South African cricket, including co-opting black members to the UCBSA board, splitting the Supersport Series into two divisions, and a new-look Standard Bank League and Cup format. Bacher said three black cricket representatives will be co-opted to the UCBSA board, […]
Tony Twine The relaxation of foreign exchange controls on South Africans has opened a world of opportunity previously forbidden. Unhappily, it has also unleashed a world of mystery on relatively innocent South Africans, many of whom had only had the domestic capital markets as their benchmark for investment performance. Wealthy South Africans, and those who […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube If God is directing television broadcast programming, then He’s trying to tell us something about the past. Why else would the hipsters and swingsters of the Sixties and Seventies keep cropping up? Bell bottoms, stiff cupped bikinis, sideburns, big medallions and some very outdated morality has crept into the fuzz […]
Ian Clayton Women in South Africa have won “a victory” in terms of the laws passed by Parliament since 1994, but key legislative changes are still required, says Pregs Govender, chair of the parliamentary joint standing committee on the improvement of the quality of life and status of women. The priorities she identifies are “a […]
If reverb makes it hard for you to figure out what the words to Heartbreak Hotel are, help is just a click away. All the words to Elvis’s songs are available at , which includes a photo gallery of The King, from school photographs to the lanky youth of early publicity shots to the bloated […]
THURSDAY, 11.45AM: ANDRE SNYMAN will return to the Northern Bulls squad for Saturday’s Super-12 encounter with the Coastal Sharks at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. Snyman missed the Bulls’ last match, against Queensland Reds, due to the death of his father. He returns to the team at centre in place of Conrad Breytenbach. The other change […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby A few months ago I arrived at ACSA’s Johannesburg International Punishment Camp. We were disembarked from our beautifully maintained 200-year-old Airbus and mercilessly driven up through one of those jetty things into a long dimly lit corridor. Dreadful torture music screamed out of the walls at us. Like a scene from […]