Residents in Nature’s Valley, a popular holiday village on the Western Cape’s Garden Route, are at each others throats about troops of baboons that raid homes in search of festive leftovers. Like the ”dethroned white males” who have become ”alienated, depressed spoilers” in the recent sparked by Malegapuru Makgoba, some residents want to take out their wrath on the primates by shooting them.
South Africans now have until June 30 to hand in illegal firearms, the government said on Friday. An amnesty period that came into effect on January 1 was to have ended on March 31. ”After this extension, people will have no excuse to say they didn’t know about the campaign,” a Department of Safety and Security spokesperson said.
The former directors of the investment arm of the South African National Civics Organisation (Sanco) face possible legal action over missing assets and investments worth millions of rands. It has emerged from various sources that more than R50-million-worth of assets and investments have vanished.
Kojo Annan, son of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, extended his lobbying efforts to South Africa on behalf of a company that became a prime contractor to the world body. Details of the younger Annan’s local visit are contained in a 144-page report released this week.
Old Mutual Healthcare, a division of London- and Johannesburg-listed Old Mutual plc, has dominated the results of the annual TWIG SA research into service levels across South Africa’s health-care industry, being ranked by medical providers as first in terms of overall service.
A team of investigators from the International Criminal Court (ICC) is ready to deploy to Sudan’s Darfur region to evaluate war crimes, following passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution giving the tribunal jurisdiction, officials said. In a hard-negotiated compromise, the United States was one of four countries to abstain.
Mike van Graan argues that Afrikaans is doing superbly because of a past that has economically empowered its primary users, for whom language and the arts are integral components of their identity.
The end of a four-match losing streak for the Sharks came not a moment too soon. In beating the Brumbies so emphatically in Durban the Sharks not only earned a shot at redemption, but also became the only local side to win in round five of the Super 12. In the greater scheme of things the five log points thus earned are irrelevant.
Undefeated centuries by opener Wavell Hinds and new captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul led the West Indies to 347 for three against South Africa in dominating the first day of the opening Test at Bourda on Thursday. Hinds blasted a career-best 188 and Chanderpaul was at 102 not out in a brilliant 241-run fourth-wicket stand.
Is it ungrateful to compare a cricket tour of the West Indies to a dilapidated funfair, to suggest that the cricket on display is the equivalent of empty shopping packets and old ticket stubs fluttering sadly on tangled barbed wire? Surely any Test series is an occasion, especially one spread across the tarnished jewels of the beautiful, poor West Indian islands?