Despite resistance from many influential Mozambicans, the project to settle Afrikaner farmers in Mozambique appears to be gathering favour. Marion Edmunds reports THE European Union (EU) has agreed to finance research into the viability of settling South African farmers in Mozambique and other African Funding for the research would come from EU funds earmarked for […]

The IFP has renewed its battle cries over the alleged assassination of about 400 party leaders. Ann Eveleth investigates the claims INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi wept last Saturday as he read the political eulogy for the Wembezi funeral of the three Dladla brothers. Gunned down almost three weeks ago on the way to […]

With its huge prize money the Million Dollar can attract top overseas players, but the poorer tournaments on the local tour can’t compete GOLF:Jon Swift THERE IS a feeling of distinct inevitability about the way the professional golf tour in this country is starting to fragment. The Zimbabwean customs holding back golf balls and equipment […]

Are there any solutions to prevent sophisticated fraud syndicates plundering our credit card accounts? asks Karen Harverson CREDIT cards represent convenience to card holders, big business for banking institutions and increasingly, easy pickings for criminals. Credit card fraud, estimated at millions of dollars a year worldwide, has more than doubled in South Africa this year, […]

Justin Pearce INSURANCE brokers in Johannesburg are advising clients that drivers of luxury cars such as BMWs run the most serious risk of being hijacked. BMW South Africa has in turn accused the insurance industry of giving customers inaccurate information about car hijackings and has called on the police to reveal the truth about which […]

Some of the irrational responses to crime could damage our new Bill of Rights, argues Etienne Mureinik MANY South Africans now live in dread of violent crime, and it is not just the awful number of daily victims that haunts them. It is also the gratuitousness with which petty thieves casually kill and cripple their […]

WINNNIE MANDELA will appear in the Witwatersrand Supreme Court today after yesterday’s postponement of her application for leave to appeal against the judgment in the diamonds from Angola, Foster Webb air charter case. The case was postponed because Modise Khoza, the advocate defending Mandela in this case, was in Durban. Mandela is applying for leave […]

SOUTH AFRICA this week passed the test of religious tolerance after a “misunderstanding” about visas almost blocked a visit by controversial Reverend Sun Myung Moon, “messiah” of the Unification Church. No sooner was Moon allowed into South Africa than his followers showed intolerance of their own. Press photographers were assaulted when they tried to get […]

Barbie dolls and plastic telephones vied with live goldfish in last weekend’s Smirnoff International Fashion Awards. But, in the end, it was the cows’ stomachs that walked off with the prize, reports MALU VAN LEEUWEN ‘IMAGINE your mind is shut away from the real world, you are living in darkness, completely detached. Then, suddenly, the […]

Justin Pearce A CIVIL Co-operation Bureau (CCB) operative turned mercenary boss and a disabled youth from Alexandra township made unlikely bedfellows as litigants in the Consitutional Court this week. In separate cases, Lafras Luitingh and Mokela Mohlomi challenged Section 113 of the Defence Act, which places limitations on the right of citizens to bring civil […]