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 […]

THREE main opposition parties in Tanzania have supported a proposal for a single candidate in the presidential election next year. Opposition heavyweights from Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo, NCCR-Mageuzi and the Civic United Front said on Thursday they are in full support of the proposal to field one presidential candidate from their camp to oppose […]

MINISTER of Education Professor Sibusiso Bengu has launched a probe into tampering in the calculation of scores in last year’s Mpumalanga matric exams. The province produced a pass rate of 72,5%, some 26,5% higher than the previous year. Bengu cited what he called “prima facie evidence of tampering” in the scores, and has involved the […]

The late, great Peter Tosh would have approved of the gig in the hall that carries his name in Khayelitsha, writes Steve Rothfuchs The steady thud of reggae was the only thing that penetrated the pungent, wafting cirrus of ganja fumes. Even the 200 or so people – sweaty, stoned and bopping – seemed to […]

children are growing up in war’ Once agian the battered town of Kuito is suffering the consequences of Angola’s never- ending civil war, writes Mercedes Sayagues Ahmed Mohammed is very angry. He is staring at a handful of new steel nails he just bought at the market. “These are my nails and I paid 500 […]

not so lekker Charlene Smith Ever wondered why potholes are increasing in city roads and parklands are becoming jungles? The Financial and Fiscal Commission points out that while local governments are providing services to five times more people than they did in the past, they have had only marginal increases in revenue. The commission, which […]

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has carried its famous name for better than a century. Now that it is moving physically to Sandton (actually, opposite the comfortable Balalaika Hotel in leafy Sandhurst), should it retain that title? For that matter, why is it moving out of Johannesburg’s rapidly dying heart at all? The arguments in […]

Nhlanhla Hlongwane Thursday night at Yeoville’s House of Tandoor is reggae night and, until the wee hours, it’s the place to be. The house has a rotating pool of DJ crews who fling the full spectrum of reggae and hip-hop. The two main crews in Johannesburg that deal with reggae are the Sounds of Edutainment, […]

MPUMALANGA police recovered on Thursday the head of a man who was apparently eaten by a crocodile in the Olifants River near Marble Hall. The head was identified as that of Wilson Milanzi (76) who went missing on Sunday after going for a swim in the river. Captain Blackie Swart said Milanzi’s family thought he […]

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 […]