Ann Eveleth South African household furnishings are shrinking to fit into government-built homes – and to lower costs in line with falling consumer spending power, say retailers. OK Furniture, a division of OK Bazaars, said this week it had seen a sharp rise in sales of “slimline refrigerators and ovens” during the past four to […]
police Andy Duffy The top detective brought in amid huge fanfare late last year to revive crime- fighting efforts on the troubled Cape Flats spent just six weeks in Cape Town before returning to Gauteng. Police management deployed Director Ivor Human to the Western Cape last October to lead investigations into the spiralling violence, and […]
The tussle between the IBA and Voice of Soweto could end in a bruising court battle, write Ferial Haffajee and Maria McCloy The Voice of Soweto radio station will seek an interdict to prevent the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) from hauling it off the air in ten days’ time. “The IBA has given us no […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM: SOUTH Africa were almost pipped at the post by New Zealand in an electrifying limited overs match at the Gabba that realised close to 600 runs. After scoring 300 runs in their alotted 50 overs South Africa climbed into the Kiwi batsmen with a vengeance. The tenacious New Zealanders fought back grimly throughout […]
Cheche Selepe Life has not been the same for the Malebane household in Katlehong, near Germiston, since the brutal rape and subsequent murder of six-year-old Mamokgethi Malebane last year. Mamokgethi’s younger sister Emma and the other children in the neighbourhood are obeying the new law of the household: never shake the hand of any male […]
Stephen Gray : Unspoilt places All roads into Warmbaths lead to the Elephant Springs Hotel. This is the resort’s old bed-and-brandy joint, the Bronnehof, reclad for all modern travellers wishing to arrive in the Waterberg district. For an introduction try the wooden deck over the main drag, where a menu of genius rejuvenates the weary […]
Mungo Soggot The panel appointed to investigate Emanuel Shaw II’s top state oil job finished its probe this week after hearing testimony from Gordon Sibiya, the senior government official leading the charge against Shaw’s R3-million appointment. The acting director general of the Department of Minerals and Energy, Dick Bakker, said this week that after hearing […]
Tom Quoin : Architecture Our deurmekaar country is filled with maddening contrasts. None more stomach- churning than the bald differences between the spacious settings in which planners and politicians live and the crushed layouts they’ve dumped on most of their fellow citizens. Though each rises on the same scattered suburban pattern — single plots for […]
Mukoni T Ratshitanga The 35 000-strong South African Agricultural Plantation and Allied Workers’ Union, which represents farm workers, will meet its Mozambican counterpart later this month to deal with the exploitation of alien labour in South Africa. The union’s general secretary, Dickson Motha, this week said they aim “to develop a common strategy on how […]
Julian Drew : Swimming Eighteen months is a long time in swimming. At the 1994 world swimming championships in Rome Penny Heyns placed sixth in the 100m breastroke final in a time of 1:10.46 and fifth in the B final over 200m in 2:33.57. Those performances received barely a mention in the nation’s sports pages […]