One of the two bidders vying for the second telecommunications network operator (SNO) has expressed ”extreme concern” following the release of a report which raised doubts about the viability of both bids.
Internationally-known classical-jazz outfit the Soweto String Quartet will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Saturday with a concert at Carnival City outside Johannesburg.
Three hundred and seventy Witwatersrand Technikon students will appear in the Jeppe Magistrate’s Court on Thursday in connection with staging an illegal protest, police said
Fifteen people, including six children, were killed in southern Afghanistan yesterday when a bomb tore apart a bus in the latest in a growing series of attacks blamed on Taliban forces.
An empire built on female nakedness went the way of all flesh yesterday when Penthouse, the magazine that once epitomised the adolescent male fantasy, accepted its mortality and filed for bankruptcy.
Mac Maharaj has resigned as a director and an employee of South African financial services group FirstRand Group and as a director of seven subsidiary boards on which he serves, FirstRand said on Thursday.
Not to skewer the post-census euphoria, but we have to face our linguistic selves in the morning mirror. The language landscape in SA is not pretty, in two troubling ways: we have virtually no idea who speaks what, and policymakers don’t care.
Last week’s Aids conference highlighted, denialism persists. For this reason, it is essential to ensure that the proposed national treatment plan actually takes place. And on the topic of untimely deaths, let’s pay tribute to two great South Africans we recently lost.
Fifty-eight years later, using recently discovered large-scale Japanese maps, sophisticated computer models and new radiation measurements, scientists have completed a painstaking reconstruction of events in Hiroshima.
Until recently I was under the impression that marriage was just a disgracefully patriarchal cattle market. But then my friend Dave asked me to be best man at his wedding. Undeniably, there are problems inherent in the idea of a female best man.