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. […]
Marianne Merten The legal battle over video recordings of the 1996 murder of Hard Living gang boss Rashaad Staggie moves to London courts next week where Reuters and Associated Press (AP) are opposing renewed attempts to obtain original footage. The Cape High Court on Thursday ruled as inadmissible several videotapes that police had seized on […]
Barry Streek Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete received a light tap on the wrist this week from President Thabo Mbeki for naming three African National Congress stalwarts allegedly plotting to oust him from the presidency. The most Mbeki would say about Tshwete’s statement, given in a reply to a question in a TV […]
Hugo Young describes his interview with President Thabo Mbeki Unlike Nelson Mandela, his successor Thabo Mbeki does not in all respects rise above history. Temporally, the apartheid era may have passed, but it remains the formative imprint on the South African psyche and the president never forgets it. A conversation with him reveals the extent […]