South Africa’s gun owners are furious about a new law which could force millions to hand over their weapons — removing what some consider their only defence against rampant crime. All legal guns must be re-licensed over a five-year period, and thousands of applications have already been rejected or snagged in red tape.
South Africans have opened their hearts and donated millions in funds and aid via private and government initiatives to help tsunami disaster victims in Africa and across the world. Meanwhile, the number of South African fatalities arising from the tsunami has risen to 10.
HIV/Aids pandemic, a disorganised Department of Health, corrupt health workers, a censorship bill that needs redressing… Even after 10 years of democracy South Africa is still in dire need of reshaping.
Not the Mail & Guardian is Robert Kirby’s startling and savagely satirical parody of the Mail & Guardian newspaper. Any similarity between real people and characters portrayed here is anything but coincidental Aries: If you’re a public servant with the odd travel scam under your belt, it’s time to take a job as an aid […]
Sexual boredom leads to a sort of desperate lack of inhibition and propriety. In England married couples, between the ages of 30 to 50, are taking part in a post-modern tribal ritual called “dogging”.
In a world-beating move by the Department of Education, fraud and corruption study is to be added to secondary school curricula. It is an attempt to further prepare learners for a sucessful life in the New South Africa.
The Department of Health has announced what it describes as thrilling new research undertaken by the original inventors of the controversial anti-Aids drug, Virodene.
Four institutions only will make up South Africa’s higher education system within a year. There will be one vast mega-university, plus the Walter Sisulu University for Technology and Science (WSU), the University of the Western Cape and Mangosuthu Technikon (MT).
Capetonians expressed dismay and disappointment this week after a man they watched fall from a 14-floor window struck the pavement — and died. Alfred Swan had been trying to water the flower boxes outside his office, when he slipped and fell.
A covert Russian space probe, The Semteski III, has captured an extraordinary battle between two Earth robotic vehicles on the surface of Mars. The robotic explorers were photographed attacking each other, trying to snatch samples from each other’s baskets.