Sipho Seepe no blows barred It is unfortunate that the 11 black signatories of the advert in the Sunday Times preferred to attribute President Thabo Mbeki’s unimpressive record as a president to right-wing conspiracy in the media. While the signatories argue that the media is on a campaign to discredit blacks in powerful positions, they […]
Tight security and prosecution blunders marked the first few days of the high-profile trial Marianne Merten Four years and nine months after Hard Livings gang boss Rashaad Staggie was shot and set alight during a People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) march, five prominent current and ex-Pagad members are standing trial for his murder and […]
Glenda Daniels Two top skills development executives with a sector education training authority (Seta) have been suspended on allegations of financial irregularities and personal enrichment. Dr Haroon Aziz, CEO of the Forestry Industries Education Training Authority (Fieta), and Daniel Malindi, head of finance at Fieta, were suspended three weeks ago. They are being investigated by […]
An investigation has been launched into shocking allegations against the Pretoria police dog school Paul Kirk Charges of sexual harassment, brutality and cruelty to animals are being investigated against a number of instructors at the Pretoria police dog school. The charges centre on the victimisation of policewomen and black members of the South African Police […]
FIONA MACLEOD, Johannesburg | Friday THE head of Kruger National Park’s game capture unit, Douw Grobler, has been suspended and charged with misconduct relating to the sale of disease-free buffalo. Grobler is a vet who is world-renowned for his expertise in relocating elephants and other large mammals. He is in charge of the park’s Lowveld […]
Yvette Gresl Needlework has become a significant form of economic empowerment for rural women in Southern Africa. Initiatives in Zimbabwe and South Africa have created opportunities for women to learn skills such as appliqu, embroidery and beadwork. Although needlework is increasingly recognised as an emerging art form, it is specifically targeted at the tourist market. […]
Three East Rand communities claim that members of the local SANDF unit are taking the law into their own hands. Sechaba ka’Nkosi reports Members of a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) unit based in the East Rand at the height of political violence since the early 1990s have been implicated in a reign of […]
Byron Kennedy in London Industry leaders generally don’t like to rock the boat in public at least. That statement rings even more true when it’s a rather close-knit community like the one that gathered in London this week to take in the 17th annual Johnson Matthey platinum review. More than 250 delegates managed to squeeze […]
Barbara Ludman THE GIRL IN THE PICTURE by Denise Chong (Simon &Schuster) There are arguably half a dozen iconic images from the Vietnam war an American soldier flicking a Zippo to set fire to the thatched roof of a Vietnamese peasant’s hut, a South Vietnamese general shooting a Viet Cong fighter in the middle of […]
Neal Collins Jamie Bloem, the 30-year-old who captained South Africa at last year’s Rugby League World Cup in England, faces allegations of racial abuse after an incident with a black player in a reserve match. The Halifax Blue Sox utililty player he is a capable kicker used in the back row and as an outside […]