Marianne Merten Having a cellphone in jail can either lead to a ban from the tuck shop or another year behind bars as a Pollsmoor prison inmate has discovered. When Allan Boesak, the recently paroled politician convicted of fraud, was found with a stolen cellphone from which he had called his wife, he was banned […]
David Macfarlane Former Rhodes University academic Dr Robert Shell has lost his appeal against his summary dismissal in February on a disciplinary charge. Academics are aghast at how Shell has been treated during the two-year saga, and suggest the fallout from the conflict enshrouds not only Shell and Rhodes, but every academic in the country. […]
SOUTH Africa’s longest surviving HIV-positive born child, Nkosi Johnson, has died in his Melville, Johannesburg home. His foster mother, Gail Johnson was at his bedside when he died on Friday morning. Johnson will be remembered as the Aids activist who challenged the government’s Aids policies and united millions of South Africans in the fight against […]
PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday SCHOOL pupils and business people in Durban are being shown shocking video footage of traffic accidents in a bid to make them more responsible drivers – and it seems to be working. Top traffic policeman Principal Provincial Inspector Mervyn Atwell travels with a video camera as well as his copy […]
EMSIE FERREIRA, Cape Town | Friday SOUTH African heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard (79), says that regular sex is the best way to keep one’s circulation flowing. Barnard, who now lives in Austria, returned to Cape Town at the weekend with a two-year-old Russian boy who has a constriction is his main heart artery and […]
Bismarck Masangu Body Language May the real wankers please stand up! I repeat, may the real wankers please stand up! Well, one thing is certain, not all of us can afford to get laid. Yet our society has little correction no sympathy for those of us who resort to manual methods. In fact the idea […]
Specialised Outsourcing says its lawyers have a strong case against Umgeni Water Bruce Whitfield On the eve of Umgeni Water concluding its investigation into whether the contract for its outsourced treasury functions to JSE Securities Exchange-listed Specialised Outsourcing was awarded fraudulently, the company has sued the parastatal for more than R40-million in unpaid invoices. The […]
South Africa face a formidable task in their African Cup of Nations clash in Monrovia Ntuthuko Maphumulo Bafana Bafana travel to Monrovia this weekend with the words of the legendary Lone Star, George Weah, ringing in their ears. “We will get you in Liberia,” the former world, European and African footballer of the year warned […]
Barry Streek Property crimes, such as robbery and theft, increased last year and in the first quarter of this year, but the murder rate went down, the first official crime statistics since July last year show. The figures, released this week after an 11-month moratorium on the publication of crime statistics ended, also indicate that […]
The line between affirmative action and racism is a narrow one, which has arguably been crossed by the Road Accident Fund’s new policy to promote black professionals. As we show in this newspaper, the rule is quite simple: no whites can be used in the legal defence of the fund, unless formal permission is obtained. […]