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Youth survey asks the hard questions

More than eight percent of 10 699 pupils in grade 8 to 11 who participated in a nationwide survey reported having forced someone to have sex with them. There was no significant…

IEC: Youth voting apathy is a myth

Nearly 60% of the 1,4-million South Africans who registered as voters for the first time during the past weekend were between 18 and 25 years old, the Independent Electoral…

State wants to ‘bend the rules’ to convict Basson

The State wants the Constitutional Court ”to bend the rules” in order to secure a conviction of Dr Wouter Basson, his counsel said on Wednesday. The Pretoria High Court had found…

State ‘can’t appeal quashing of Basson charges

The state has forfeited its right to appeal against the quashing of certain charges — of conspiring to murder people abroad — against apartheid chemical and biological warfare…

Pretoria’s croc could be a kidnap victim

The crocodile playing Loch Ness monster in the Hennops River, west of Pretoria, might have been kidnapped, or else it was an escapee, an expert said on Wednesday. He believes…

Charter addresses financial services for poor

Eighty percent of the poorest people in South Africa should have effective access to financial services by 2008, according to the Financial Sector Charter, which was released on…

‘It’s wrong to say Afrikaners cannot stand together’

Conservative Party leader Ferdi Hartzenberg prefers not to dwell on the demise of his party two decades after it burst on to the political scene of apartheid South Africa with…

Empowerment will create a more viable SA economy

To argue whether or not black economic empowerment (BEE) would benefit an elite group was a non-debate, Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Saturday. The issue was…

We sink or swim together: Mbeki

President Thabo Mbeki is to ask the government for money to help women to play their role in the transformation of Africa.

Bad roads are ‘costing South Africa billions’

Poor road conditions added an estimated R3,8-billion to transport costs in South Africa annually, the SA National Consumer Union heard on Friday.

Meet Futhi, Africa’s first cloned animal

Africa’s first cloned animal, a two-and-a-half-week-old calf, was introduced to the media near Brits in the North-West on Wednesday.

Bush is judge, jury and executioner: Pretoria mayor

The war on Iraq, being based on greed, could not be condemned enough, Tshwane mayor Smangaliso Mkhatshwa said on Thursday night. ”The perpetrators of this war even have the guts,…

What Winnie wants, Winnie gets

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s co-accused, broker Addy Moolman, testified on Tuesday that he stated in loan applications that people who did not work for the ANC Women’s League,…

Holding thumbs for Winnie’s court appearance

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s fraud and theft trial was placed on hold once again on Thursday because her co-accused, Addy Moolman, had not yet recovered from injuries sustained in…

Quarter of world’s dagga comes from SA

Almost a quarter of all dagga seized world-wide last year was found in Southern Africa, mostly South Africa, according to the annual report of the International Narcotics Control…

Black Caps welcomed, warned

While it now seems that Tshwane is as far north in Africa the New Zealand cricket team is going to get during the World Cup tournament, the city rolled out its zebra-striped…

Zim minister ‘bragged about farms for pals’

The land reform programme in Zimbabwe was used primarily to secure political patronage and has done irreparable damage to the agricultural production base there, Agri SA claimed…

If blast had happened on a school day…

Robertsham Primary School suffered an estimated R30 000 damage due to an explosion at a nearby fibreglass factory on Saturday, but principal Sharon Lynch still has reason to be…

Aids to slash 12m off SA’s population growth

HIV/Aids was expected to slash 12-million off South Africa’s population growth by 2015, the University of South Africa’s Bureau of Market Research (BMR) said on Monday.

Benz brothers trial postponed again

The fraud and corruption trial of former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni and businessman Michael Woerfel was on Thursday postponed in the Pretoria Commercial…