Members of the party have been accused of irregularly allocating council houses to family members Barry Streek Two new corruption scandals have rocked the Democratic Alliance in Cape Town this week, as the party battles to control the damage caused by the street renaming saga. Affidavits have surfaced alleging that a DA councillor was involved […]

REVIEW David Shapshak LG DVD 3251P The only problematic thing about owning an MP3s collection is that you can only play them on your computer. The highly popular music file format, which reduces an average song to a 10th its size, has taken the world by storm but playing them is very limited outside of […]

Michael Hartnack in Harare President Robert Mugabe hopes this week to pull off his second great diplomatic coup of the 18-month Zimbabwean crisis: getting his neighbours to accept it stems from white ownership of prime farmland rather than from his own efforts to cling to power. President Thabo Mbeki will be among the presidents of […]

Thuli Nhlapo The families of two police officers who disappeared in 1985 believe the South African Police Service (SAPS) discriminates against black members of the force. Meshack Baloyi of Johannesburg and Nomsingiselo Maki of Stutterheim have abandoned an expensive, four-year battle for benefits from the SAPS. Freddy Baloyi and Nosisi Maki, who infiltrated the African […]

It’s seldom that a maiden plate makes for one of the big attractions on the card, but the first race at Turffontein on Saturday could be an exception. While all seasoned racegoers have at one time or another been subjected to rumours of unbeatable first-timers, the pedigree of David Ferraris’s Martinelli should make even the […]

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is the latest celeb to get a “Brazilian most women wince at the idea BODY LANGUAGE Laura Barton Cross your legs, ladies, this may sting a little. On a scale of one to childbirth, waxing your nether regions is a minor blip. But the curious point is that more and more women are […]

GOLF Bill Elliot When Mark James took Bernhard Langer aside in Munich two years ago to tell him that, no matter what, he was not going to be a captain’s pick for the 1999 Ryder Cup team, the German took it in typically flamboyant style. “Really,” he said, those hard eyes of his narrowing as […]

Tara Turkington A bus operator in Kimberley has retrenched half his staff and is facing bankruptcy after an empowerment deal set up by the provincial government went sour. Sabbatha Mathiba once owned the thriving Rainbow Bus Company, ferrying commuters to and from work at the De Beers diamond mines. But now the company is in […]

Getting together to solve common problems is the African way. The rise of vigilante group Mapogo a Matamaga is rooted in this tradition, reports Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The reception afforded him by his loyal, sjambok-wielding followers would have made a royal welcome seem a gloomy affair. Horns started blaring hours before his arrival. The […]

Ngwako Modjadji A committee appointed by Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete to investigate farm attacks on farmers has been accused of being one-sided because it was not listening to farm workers’ concerns. The investigation was launched in April after farmers forwarded a complaint to Tshwete on farm attacks. The commission is to probe […]