Racial tension within Mpumalanga police stations has reached ”ugly” proportions, says the province’s safety and security minister, Fish Mahlalela. ”The tension between black and white officers at police stations is ugly and dents … the fight against crime,” he told a meeting on Thursday.
The 2010 World Cup soccer tournament is a prime target for corruption, editors were told in Johannesburg on Friday. ”There is a real fear that South Africa, in the staging of the World Cup, could look bad in the eyes of the world because of the dangers of corruption,” said Professor Danny Titus, of Transparency International.
A two-year-old boy whose genitals were badly mutilated was left without medical attention for about an hour at the Kagiso police station on the West Rand, media reports said on Friday. Police said they could not transport him to a hospital because of service policy, and a member of the public took him there instead.
An evocative smell of books, paper and wood polish greets visitors to the Johannesburg Public Library, known these days as the City of Johannesburg Library and Information Service.
The government has to reduce South Africans’ dependence on grants, President Thabo Mbeki told community development workers at an indaba in Midrand on Friday. ”We have to cultivate that sentiment among our people to say, ‘I too have a responsibility to do something about my own development,”’ said Mbeki.
Jocelyn Newmarch speaks to Tom Eaton about his first foray into literary fiction.
Carol Brown looks at the history of collecting and considers the merits of the Jo’burg Art Fair.
Simon Njami on the show he has curated for the Jo’burg Art Fair and why he has called it <i>As You Like It</i>.
<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>Love in the Time of Cholera</i>, <i>One Missed Call</i> and <i>Step Up 2 the Streets</i>.
It is the one moment every man wants to get right — and which London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong. The luckless 28-year-old’s dreams of giving his sweetheart, Leanne (26), the ultimate proposal have literally vanished into thin air.