Police used water spray on University of Johannesburg (UJ) students who were shaking the entrance gate to the Kingsway Campus on Monday afternoon. Students earlier said they were going to break the gate down if they were not allowed access to the campus. They said they would resort to anarchy.
Emails suggesting that a severe storm with a tornado was to hit Johannesburg and surrounds on Monday afternoon were "greatly exaggerated", the South African Weather Service said. One email on Monday read: "Please be careful as a tornado dropped in Randfontein on Saturday and is expected today."
About 1 250 miners remained trapped more than 2,2km underground in Harmony Gold’s Elandsrand mine near Carletonville on Thursday after an all-night rescue mission. The mine’s general manager, Stan Bierschenk, said the morale of workers still stuck below ground was ”fairly brittle”.
During Ramadan, a time of well-being and positive thoughts, my world seems governed by food, sleep and work. As the weeks pass, you start wondering what Ramadan really is all about. It’s not just the eating, though it is an integral part of my fasting day, writes Zahira Kharsany in the second of a three-part series on Ramadan.
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/ 28 September 2007
Meet Max, the Stud Butler. He’s an oversized, flesh-coloured ventriloquist’s dummy with a bow tie and hard-on — the world’s first hands-free sex toy, available at South Africa’s first sex expo, the Sexpo. However, he won’t fit discreetly into the underwear drawer, and will probably require a cupboard all to himself.
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/ 26 September 2007
During Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, Muslims all over the world abstain from food, drink and other physical needs during the day. It is a time for self-sacrifice and purifying the soul. In the first of a series of articles, Zahira Kharsany tells of the self-discipline needed to go a day without sustenance.
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/ 25 September 2007
It sounds too good to be true. Purchase a can of PhotoBlocker, liberally spray your car’s number plate and forget about ever receiving a speeding fine again. The manufacturers of the spray claim that with just one application, a number plate will be rendered as a bright rectangle in speed-camera photographs.
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/ 20 September 2007
Monday September 24 is Heritage Day, a public holiday in South Africa. But this year it may just become more famous as National Braai Day. The day, supported by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, ”will allow us to get together, burn the past and cook up a succulent future”, says Jan Scannell, CEO of National Braai Day.
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/ 20 September 2007
It seems one cannot, after all, do movies, gaming, education, business and music on Telkom’s broadband offering. The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled against Telkom’s "Do Broadband" advertising campaign in which it promises consumers that they can do all of the above internet activities using a one-gigabyte broadband package.
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/ 19 September 2007
"Let’s stop meaningless journalism." That was the cry from new South African press ombudsman Joe Nong Thloloe at a forum, themed Leading Conversations, held on Tuesday. Thloloe, a former South African Broadcasting Corporation and e.tv news editor-in-chief, was appointed to the position at the launch of the new Press Council of South Africa on Friday August 3.