BODY LANGUAGE Shane Watson The January issues of the glossies go on sale soon, jostling for our attention with the usual cocktail of sex, glamour and celebrity. Vanity Fair has attempted to top last months Brad Pitt calendar-boy cover with a picture of a bare-chested Tom Cruise. GQs gone for Heidi Klum in a bikini […]

A programme that aims to ”plant” the ethics of conservation in the value system of teenagers has been launched in KZN, writes Niki Moore The sound of cicadas in the midday heat of the Umfolozi valley is deafening. Of course, if youre sitting in an air-conditioned office in Sandton, you wouldnt know that. You wouldnt […]

The applicants lawyer, Sarel Roux, said this week they were in negotiations with Saudi Oger about a possible settlement.

Unions and other civil society bodies want wider representation Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane The two-million-strong Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) this week walked out of the body organising civil society participation in next years massive World Summit on Sustainable Development. Civil societys preparations for the summit have been further damaged by the […]

Phindi Molefe (22), an entrant in ”Miss Fats” South Africa 2001, waits backstage for her number to be called. Last Friday evening the Johannesburg Civic trembled under the pudgy feet of 12 hopefuls vying for the title of the most voluptuous in the land. The only entry criterion is that contestants weigh in at a […]

FOUR people were shot dead and one seriously injured after an argument over a girlfriend in Thembisa on Tuesday, North Rand police said. Inspector Matlhodi Motadi said the incident happened around 5am. No further details were available. – Sapa

THREE white youngsters and ex-policeman, Eben Kruger, will be sentenced in the so-called ”Parys bashing case” on Thursday, SABC television news reported on Wednesday. The four were found guilty on Wednesday of killing two black people in what was believed to have been a racially motivated killing in Parys, in the northern Free State, in […]

POLICE were on Monday investigating the possibility that the nine-year-old girl, whose body was found in a field at Kraaifontein near Cape Town earlier in the afternoon, had been raped. Policeman Wickus Holtzhausen, said the body was discovered in the veld by two bypassers. He said forensic experts were by Monday evening still trying to […]

PUTCO will open a full investigation into the crash of one of its buses on the N1 freeway outside Pretoria on Monday afternoon, the company’s managing director Nathi Khena said. His announcement came about three hours after a Putco bus collided head-on with an eight ton truck on the N1 freeway in Pretoria at around […]

TRIALISTS of the historic Liliesleaf Rivonia Trial will on Saturday meet in a reunion for the first time in 38 years. Nadine Bainbridge, a representative for the Liliesleaf Rivonia Trialist Reunion organisers, said on Monday the function — at the history-making Rivonia farm — would bring together for the first time all those closely associated […]