The PSL title looks destined for one of the two Soweto giants Ntuthuko Maphumulo The race for Premier Soccer League (PSL) title will not be over until the fat lady sings but the first notes sounded for defending champions Sundowns after their 0-0 draw with Orlando Pirates on Wednesday. The Mamelodi outfit still have a […]
The medical aid scheme is facing a moral backlash from doctors and patients who accuse it of making huge profits while its members die from a treatable infection. Chen Blignaut reports Aids specialists and lawyers have accused the country’s wealthiest private medical aid scheme, Discovery Health, of “handing down death sentences” by “duping” members into […]
In the Caribbean, members of the touring South African cricket team are fined R10 000 each for smoking dagga. In the ensuing controversy at home some feel they should be hung, drawn and quartered while others say it was just a harmless party activity performed in private and really not an important issue. In the […]
Stefaans Brmmer Credit bureaus those hawkers of information on you and your creditworthiness are pushing for a new code of conduct that, critics charge, will allow them to store private details such as your political affiliation, mental state and sexual preference. The credit industry says the majority of consumer items are bought on credit. Credit […]
Michelle Matthews food La Colombe, Savoy Cabbage, The Restaurant, Bukhara … Dozens of the Cape’s best-known and loved restaurants fall under categories such as ”fine dining”, ”contemporary” and ”exotic” during the Cape Gourmet Festival. The most exciting category is ”new” a short list of six establishments ranging from a homey curry den in Wynberg (Fiamma’s) […]
Percy Callaghan and Mike Loewe The dismissal of a kitchen worker at a Rhodes University residence for taking a bit of left-over jam has outraged sections of the university but the human resources department is standing firm. Eunice Onceya (47), a diabetic, widowed mother of five, said she took about 30g of jam to spread […]
A freak ‘single cause’ accident was blamed when an Air France Concorde crashed in flames last year. But a number of avoidable errors may have played a part in the disaster, writes David Rose It is an indelible image, heavy with symbolism: the photograph taken on July 25 last year at the moment Concorde became […]
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The Film and Publication Board has passed the video version of the French arthouse film <i>Romance X</i> for general distribution without cuts. The film, which features several scenes of explicit nudity and sex will carry an age restriction of 18, which means that it may only be rented or sold to adults.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Noupoort | Thursday A TEENAGER from Moreleta Park in Pretoria has died in a “detention camp” at a Christian care centre in Noupoort for drug and alcohol addicts, apparently after being chained by his neck in a disciplinary cell, Beeld newspaper reports. The centre, run by clergymen, has accused the police of “unprofessional […]