Possible manipulation of votes on the renaming of two streets is under scrutiny in Cape Town Marianne Merten It was an inauspicious start to the public hearings to get to the bottom of whether and how submissions on the renaming of Cape Town’s two oldest streets might have been manipulated. Inquiry chairman advocate Willem Heath […]
Bongani Majola The word “battle” features prominently when South African graffiti artists talk about their work. This was evident at a recent graffiti competition in Johannesburg. The winning work, which took a R500 prize, was of a man menacingly clutching a little teddy bear in his hand. This is, according to Wealz, the sole judge […]
Documents suggest that Chippy Shaik did not withdraw from key arms decisions involving his brother’s interests Paul Kirk Intelligence agencies and the state attorney this week sought to stop the Mail & Guardian from publishing information about documents that expose serious irregularities in the R50-billion arms deal. Shortly after the M&G asked Minister of Trade […]
As the exciting KwaZulu-Natal season recedes into the past, attention swings to the mud of Kenilworth in Cape Town, which offers this weekend’s only graded feature race, the R80000 weight-for-age Champagne Stakes for fillies and mares over 1200m. The race has attracted a few useful older sprinters but the winner could be an improving member […]
David Macfarlane About 75% of schools expel girls who fall pregnant, but only 25% of schools also expel the father of the child. “There’s not a school in the country that doesn’t have to face the problem of pregnancy among learners,” says Ken Alston, acting rector of the Teachers’ Centre in East London. He bases […]
THE Swaziland government is planning to bus thousands of rural people to a meeting called by King Mswati III on Friday, in a bid to counter stayaway calls from pro-democracy groups. Swaziland Commercial Amadoda Road Transport (Scarta) confirmed on Thursday that it planned to transport people to the meeting using petrol supplied by the government. […]
DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Friday FOR two weeks the Internet has been the spawning ground for widespread, distorted rumours about the government’s alleged plan to institute Internet “censorship” measures, “similar to those introduced in China”. The Interception and Monitoring Bill about to be introduced to Parliament contains no recipe for Internet censorship, though provisions […]
THE United States has donated crime-fighting equipment worth $150 000 to the Nigerian police, officials said this week. The equipment, including vehicles, computers, generators, fax machines, fire-proof safes and VHF radios, was presented to a special fraud unit on Wednesday. Also included in the package is special training for investigators of international fraud and financial […]
TWO Zambian police officers have been sentenced to death by hanging, after the Lusaka High Court found them guilty of murder. The senior police officers were arrested in March 1999 for murdering a truck driver after hijacking his vehicle laden with copper destined for South Africa, a Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) report said. In […]
TANZANIAN police have seized 151,5 tons of marijuana, destroyed 42 hectares of the narcotic plant and arrested 1 100 suspected drug traffickers, police announced on Wednesday. Police also impounded a kilogram of cannabis resin, an unspecified quantity of bhang seeds and 150,27 grams of heroin. “What is worse are reports that in 10 regions, people […]