Johannesburg Child Welfare has permitted a gay couple to adopt a child — a first in South Africa, writes Gavin Duvenhage The first ever officially approved gay adoption took place in Johannesburg last month when a lesbian couple received a newborn baby from Johannesburg Child Welfare. Johannesburg Child Welfare, who managed the adoption, confirmed that […]
Justin Pearce HENDRIK THEUNISSEN was not sodomised by an unknown number of former Umkhonto weSizwe soldiers. And neither was there any proof that he had indulged in sexual relations with a dog. These facts emerged in the Middelburg regional court last week, during a trial which found Theunissen guilty on charges of perjury and defeating […]
Robert Pickup, performing in Pretoria tonight, has the=20 world at his feet, writes COENRAAD VISSER WHEN Robert Pickup took the stage last month in Tempe,=20 Arizona, as this year’s winner of the young artists’=20 competition of the International Clarinet Society, he=20 was merely taking the next step along a career path=20 which saw him take […]
Politician Thandi Modise talks frankly about being abused by her husband, to Stefaans Brummer SHE’s deputy head of the ANC Women’s League, MP and former Umkhonto weSizwe commander, yet Thandi Modise cannot make phone calls from home. For that she needs the permission of her husband, and he won’t give it to The SABC’s controversial […]
At more than R18-billion, the amount of fraud under=20 investigation poses a serious problem for police. Reg=20 Rumney reports Around R18,5-billion of white-collar crime is under=20 investigation in South Africa at present. The Office for Serious Offences is investigating around=20 R9,5-billion worth of fraud, while the South African=20 Police Commercial branch is investigating around 23 […]
Marion Edmunds Mineral and Energy Affairs Minister Pik Botha is to summons the Malawi High Commissioner to South Africa, Willie Khoza, for talks to ensure that the former Malawi dictator, Dr Hastings Banda, gets a fair trial. A spokesman from the ministry, Roland Darroll, said this week that Minister Botha was responding to a direct […]
Karen Harverson Foundry engineering and rolled steel producing group=20 Scaw Metals is investigating the possibility of=20 expanding into South America and may acquire a foundry=20 operation to supply the Chilean mining industry with=20 mining consumables such as mill liners and gauging=20 “It’s still in the early stages but we are looking to=20 diversify into other […]
Ernie Els has turned his back on the the tedium of the=20 US golf circus for a real life in Europe GOLF: Jon Swift THERE are two ways to attack the tedium and insularity=20 of the US professional golf tour. The first is to do=20 what Nick Price has done for years: switch on to […]
Marion Edmunds Parliamentarians are making mileage out of the taxpayer — MPs and senators get to keep “voyager miles” earned while flying on official business, and may use them to pay for their holidays or personal business. South African taxpayers last year paid for R21,5- million worth of flights for parliamentarians. This involved 20 317 […]
Ballroom dance is taking root from Elsies River to=20 Mmabatho, discovered JUSTIN PEARCE at Sun City last=20 SOMEHOW, it could only have happened at Sun City. You=20 know you’ve arrived there when the plastic bags flapping=20 on fences give way to coloured flags flapping on poles,=20 and inside the dimly lit halls of the Superbowl […]