Extravagance has wiped out hard-won financial gains at Unisa, insiders say. Unisa is lavishing millions of rands on accommodation for its new vice-chancellor, Dr Barney Pityana, in a stately historic mansion in Pretoria.
One measure of a good society is whether individuals are free to do as they choose on matters that principally concern only them. The debate about heroin, cocaine and marijuana touches precisely on this.
It was while she was on her way to collect the body of her sister-in-law last year that Christine was raped. She resisted, so her attacker — a member of the main rebel group, she believes — shot her twice in the vagina.
Increasing numbers of voters are supporting independent candidates. If results of by-elections since are anything to go by, support is growing for independent candidates in some areas, showing disenchantment with traditional party politics.
British citizens retired overseas on Wednesday lost their high court battle for the right to have their state retirement pensions increased in line with inflation. A judge rejected accusations that the government was unlawfully discriminating.
Is Condoleezza Rice set to become the US’s first black and female vice-president? She is suddenly being talked about as a serious contender for the Republican vice-presidential nomination in 2004 and George W Bush’s secret weapon for a second term
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on Wednesday night, killing two Israelis, and intensifying fears that the relative lull was over. The explosion was the third suicide bombing inside the borders of the Jewish state since Sunday.
Millions of rands illegally invested by two KwaZulu-Natal municipalities may never be recovered, as they appear to have disappeared into a web of companies currently being liquidated. Treasurers were persuaded to make secret loans totalling R26-million.
OBITUARY: World-renowned popularising palaeontologist controversially revised Darwin’s theories and took a political stand on science. Profesor Stephen Jay Gould was an unlikely figure to have been canonised in his lifetime by the United States Congress.
At the time of his death, Joe Modise’s closest associates were a band of white arms company executives drawn from the greasy brotherhood of the sanctions-busting era era — a strange legacy for a man claimed as a hero of the liberation struggle.