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William Mervin Gumede is the next blip on the plagiarism radar that is sweeping South Africa, writes Colin Bower.
As few as 2,5% of road accident deaths in South Africa result in culpable homicide prosecutions, a senior state official has indicated. This suggests that no more than half a…
As far as the South African schools’ curriculum is concerned, life evolved, it was not designed. The topics it covers include the Africa-cradle-of-mankind thesis, which…
Apart from the fact that they all call themselves Christian, what do the following people have in common? Right-wing, ultra-conservative Roman Catholic Mel Gibson and former…
The time is fast approaching when veterinarians will be forbidden to dock dogs’ tails. The South African Veterinarian Council has declared that tail docking for cosmetic purposes…
”All business relationships are based on power and profit. To pretend otherwise is delusional, and to manage any business in denial of so simple and far-reaching a truth is to…
An e-mail circulating among academics at the University of Cape Town has fuelled the controversy around poet Antjie Krog by decribing what it calls Krog’s "close borrowing" from…
Kwela Books is consulting lawyers with a view to suing the University of Cape Town academic Stephen Watson for libel over his controversial plagiarism allegations against…
God is having to wait while a magistrate makes up his mind. In his courtroom in Viterbo, Italy, Gaetano Mautone has heard opening argument in a preliminary hearing in respect of…
Leading South African Muslim scholars and intellectuals this week distanced themselves from what they called the ”over-reaction” of sections of the international Muslim community…
It will probably surprise many people — some of them agreeably — to know that it is not illegal in Germany to eat a corpse, providing you can find one of course. Last year, Armin…
It is a mouth-watering prospect, undoubtedly the news story of this fledgling year: God, in a human court of law, almost in the shadow of the Vatican, under obligation to prove…
The discovery that the deities of ancient Palestine were female ought to be good news for all of humanity, not just women. Even the increasingly beleaguered monotheistic…
Humanity has been ill-served by Christianity, which was born in deceit — the virgin birth, miracles, the resurrection of the body, the promise of eternal life — and nurtured into…
Two former Durbanites are on an epic motorcycle trip that started in New York 15 months ago and is still far from finished Gavin Foster ‘I was in New York, working on Wall…
