OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 4.00pm. INDUSTRIAL action at Johannesburg airport disrupted flights on Friday causing delays for as long as three hours, senior officials said. Airport Company of South Africa (Acsa) spokesperson Rory Mackey said industrial action by workers at handling firm Swiss Port started at 8.45am and is causing disruptions at major airports […]

FOUR new caps have been chosen for the South African Sevens team to participate in the Fiji Sevens on March 12 and 13, rugby administrators announced in Cape Town on Wednesday. South Western Districts wings Paul Treu and Wayne Munn, Blue Bulls flyhalf Daniel Grobler and Western Province wing Herman Mostert will make their debut […]

Ferial Haffajee A concerted effort to Africanise the leadership of SABC television news for the first time has sown tension in the country’s largest and most powerful newsroom. The installation of a new guard, led by journalists Phil Molefe and Snuki Zikalala, coincides with allegations that TV news coverage is growing increasingly establishment. Radical change […]

Susan Purn The police have opened a criminal docket to investigate who secretly taped the visits to convicted killer Janusz Walus by his lawyers in prison in 1993. Ten cassettes, two of which are of legal visits, have been handed to the police. The recordings were made during the time Walus was awaiting trial for […]

With strong support from traditional leaders, the UDM is becoming a force to be reckoned with in the Eastern Cape, reports Chiara Carter Five chiefs have made themselves available for nomination by the United Democratic Movement – a move likely to bolster support for the party which appears poised to become the official opposition in […]

POLICE in Cape Town’s Eastern and Western metropoles on Friday launched a special crime prevention operation focusing on armed robberies which usually increase towards the end of the month. The operation will last throughout the weekend. The assistant commissioner for the Eastern metropole Niel van Heerden said police will be deployed in target areas in […]

Raekha Prasad Body Language It is accepted practice when gathering honey to dodge the sting of the bee. So, too, women have chosen to take the seminal fluid and ditch the man. For a woman wanting a child who isn’t looking for or can’t find father material, variations on the turkey baster and one-night stand […]

Brenda Fassie is back in Soweto this weekend to thank her countless faithful fans for their support registered through massive sales of Memeza, her hot new album. Fassie has had a long relationship with this teeming city. For many years she’s traversed the length and breadth of the vast township, lauded by young and old. […]

Matthew Krouse Down the tube Who believes that Isabel Jones – television’s supreme protector of consumers’ rights – agreed to demonstrate Verimark’s kitchen twister as part of her near-religious plight to offer society a better deal? Like all mortals, it seems that Jones also has her price. For that she can be forgiven; but the […]

For some, Nigeria’s election is merely a merry-go-round of the same people responsible for the country’s problems, reports Chris McGreal from Lagos The party of former military ruler General Olusegun Obasanjo has won Nigeria’s parliamentary elections. But a low turnout in Lagos and other major cities testified to widespread scepticism about whether the National Assembly […]