The only arrests at Bredell were for indecent exposure. On Thursday night the squatters were left at the mercy of the elements Evidence wa ka Ngobeni, Bongani Majola and Khadija Magardie The early morning mist hanging over Bredell, Kempton Park, on Thursday made visibility difficult. But when trucks arrived and disgorged a few hundred men, […]
A SECOND LOOK Belinda Beresford Poor South Africans can take anti-retroviral drugs to combat HIV as effectively and safely as patients elsewhere in the world, local researchers have proved. A study released this week flies in the face of local and international justifications for withholding antiretroviral drugs from South Africans. Such arguments have included cost […]
Henrietta Mqokomiso is taking on the City of Johannesburg after she was evicted from her home Nawaal Deane The Legal Resources Centre is preparing a landmark legal battle on behalf of Henrietta Mqokomiso, who was evicted from her house in Alexandra township three weeks ago. The Mail & Guardian reported last month on Mqokomiso’s plight […]
Thabo Mohlala State prosecutors are to receive huge salary increases backdated to January 1, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Penuell Maduna has announced. This year prosecutors protested against their salaries and working conditions by embarking on a series of go-slows, adding to an already deteriorating problem of a backlog of cases across South Africa’s […]
In this special report Khadija Magardie opens a window on one of the country’s most dangerous occupations policing, where pressure to fight crime is coming at an increasingly heavy cost There is a claustrophobic yet expansive, rushed yet benign feeling to the onset of early evening in Johannesburg, almost a sense of foreboding. At best […]
Paul Boekkooi This year transformation received a boost like never before in the National Youth Orchestra’s (NYO) 37-year history. This weekend’s concerts promise to represent a level of renewed thinking that hasn’t been experienced for many years in the areas of programming and the contracted soloist. It’s difficult to recall if the NYO ever performed […]
A SECOND LOOK Mazibuko K Jara Last week’s interview with Tony Leon, the egoistic political representative of dark forces of reaction and backwardness in our society, exposes the real Democratic Alliance (“Leon and hungry”). Its agenda seeks to undermine fundamental transformation of society in favour of the impoverished black majority. For example, early in the […]
Wilhelm Disbergen Party van Ons: Die Homeros Leesboek compiled by Danie Botha (Homeros) No story can grip the reader if there is no honest investment from the writer in the subject matter. With all the writers in this book openly gay and writing for a gay reader, most of the narratives seem at least semi-autobiographical […]
PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday The largest private detective agency in South Africa – so large that it threatens to eclipse the government’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies – is being investigated for fraud. More than two weeks ago one of the highest-level investigation teams ever assembled by the South African Police Service raided the […]
MARIANNE MERTEN, Cape Town | Friday A CONSTITUTIONAL Court ruling has opened the way for a teenage Cape Town schoolgirl to claim damages from the Western Cape Department of Education because she was raped by a teacher. Last week the court declared invalid a law that allows aggrieved South African citizens only 90 days to […]