An asylum-seeker has 30 days to appeal against home affairs’s rejection of his application on the basis that he was using the procedure as a cover for espionage Piers Pigou The arrest and attempted deportation earlier last month of an asylum-seeker from Cameroon by the Department of Home Affairs has again raised concerns about the […]

Neal Collins soccer Lucas Radebe will announce his retirement from international football on Friday unless South African Football Association chief executive Danny Jordaan can come up with a plan that satisfies the increasingly urgent demands of Leeds United. Jordaan, Radebe and his agent Gary Blumberg were due to meet Leeds coach David O’Leary and chairman […]

A number of MPLs across party lines are concerned about the drop in standards in the House Jaspreet Kindra KwaZulu-Natal’s legislature rocked with racial slurs this week, causing an MPL to flee the House in tears. The legislature’s staff expressed concern about the behaviour of some African National Congress politicians and said they had never […]

In November last year hospitals in the Eastern Cape ran out of money to buy medicines and food for patients Scotch Tagwireyi Sister Elizabeth Mokoni (37) of Natalspruit hospital’s paediatric department on the East Rand is haunted by the sound of crying babies. Her concentration is beginning to lapse. She can’t stand noise even the […]

Debbie Fox As KwaZulu-Natal’s cholera outbreak prompts school lessons on health education, a Western Cape community is reaping the rewards of a disease prevention and environmental awareness programme brought right into the home. Community workers at Imizamo Yethu have found weekly door-to-door education the key to improving waste management in the 500 serviced and 1 […]

Scotch Tagwireyi After five years of struggling to feed and educate her three children, Gertrude Mahlangu (34) of Katlehong on the East Rand decided to give up the fight. On January 17, when she realised she had failed to raise enough money to send her children to school, she decided to end her life and […]

Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION In advance of another season of the rather pitiful Mr Bean, SABC3 last week ran a “special”, which was more a documentary on Rowan Atkinson than anything else. As a promo for Bean the exercise was oddly counterproductive in that, by offering a retrospective of Atkinson’s remarkable comic abilities, it left you […]

While their mothers entertain clients by night and sleep by day, children of the sex industry are forced to fend for themselves Thuli Nhlapo Mothers are expected to be selfless, caring and constant. Celeste Nqaki* has never experienced such love. When she celebrated her first birthday on December 21 last year, there was no candle […]

A DESPERATE, jobless woman who strangled her third baby and threw him down a pit toilet has appeared in the Nelspruit Regional Court. Marriet Myeni, 33, of Masibekela tribal trust near Malelane, told the court she was desperate when she killed her little boy on April 23 last year, because she had two other children […]