Eddie Koch=20 THE National Intelligence Agency (NIA) this week denied =20 media reports that its director general Sizakele =20 Whijmore Sigxashe threatened to shoot his wife and =20 children on Tuesday night and refused to hand over his =20 firearm to a police patrol that was called to the =20 scene. =20 An NIA press […]

A billboard battle highlights the need for a uniform policy on outdoor advertising, writes Neil Bierbaum A FIGHT over a billboard on the grounds of a school in Sandton could turn into a test case affecting the future of outdoor advertising in the country. The billboard, at St Peter’s School, advertises Bridgestone Tyres and is […]

Local telecommunication authorities can’t quite decide on their policies. Leon Perlman reports Virtually the entire ensemble of South African telecommunications Who’s Who assemble at Telecom 95, the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) seventh World Telecommunications Forum and exhibition. Curious strategy shifts in our telecommunications policy filtered through during the nine day event. Held at the massive […]

Jan Taljaard and Annicia Reddiar=20 MOSES SITHOLE, prime suspect in the Gauteng serial =20 killings, was caught by police this week and is likely =20 to stand trial for the murder of up to 40 young women -=20 – but it had almost gone the other way.=20 In an almost uncanny replay of the incident […]

Musical posts=20 THE University of Cape Town’s Professor David Woods has =20 been appointed vice chancellor of Rhodes University, =20 ending a drawn-out saga in the search for a replacement =20 for Dr Derek Henderson, who retires next year. Woods =20 was also one of two candidates presented to the UCT =20 Senate in a […]

Rugby: Jon Swift RUGBY’S decision to open the doors to paid players has produced a xenophobia seemingly more iconoclastic than anything ever dreamed up by the human engineering of the apartheid system. The latest ruling effectively ends any contribution foreign players may make to the domestic leagues worldwide … if they want to continue playing […]

THE ANC: Will madam ever vote for Eve?=20 Justin Pearce=20 Eve Jammy usually does her canvassing by phone. But on =20 a rare occasion when she does canvas house to house, =20 it’s easy to see why she prefers the phone. =20 Jammy is a local election candidate for Ward 11 in =20 Johannesburg’s posh […]

The Japanese could give us some pointers on how to =20 attract doctors to rural hospitals, writes David =20 MUCH attention has been given to alleviating the =20 chronic shortage of doctors for rural service both here =20 and elsewhere. The Department of National Health’s =20 drive towards the development of a health care system […]

Justin Pearce=20 South Africa’s failure to support an outright ban on =20 landmines brought it into direct opposition to =20 Mozambique at the United Nations conference on =20 landmines, which ended inconclusively in Vienna this =20 week. Mozambique is one of the countries worst affected =20 by landmines.=20 The conference is to reconvene in December […]

As the race for league honours enters the final straight Orlando Pirates look like they have too much to do and Sundowns and Cape Town Spurs are battling it out in the lead Soccer: Lungile Madywabe WHILE a Jackpot or a Pick Six carry-over is always received with sighs of disbelief by punters, soccer followers […]