with fraud Darran Morgan Six members of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands child protection unit (CPU) in Pietermaritzburg have been charged with fraud after an internal investigation revealed irregularities in informer payment claims going as far back as 1996. Most of the allegedly fraudulent claims were made out to a police reservist who, according to a member […]
Peter Dickson Port Elizabeth, gateway to one of South Africa’s most impoverished regions, is gearing up for an economic miracle that could ironically put immense pressure on the city as the homeless and jobless compete for living space. A decade ago 30 000 people poured into Saldanha and set up informal settlements, built on the […]
Nigella Lawson BODY LANGUAGE There’s a poster, a huge sky-stretching poster: it features a woman, or her almost bare torso; shoulders, neck, a transparent black T-shirt over unconcealed – indeed, heightened – nipples. It’s an advertisement for Vogue.com (that’s Vogue-dot-com) though the dot is typographically missing. I don’t say it isn’t witty (and the other […]
Anyone who argues for socialism will find allies in the ANC, the party’s secretary general said this week Jaspreet Kindra African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe this week committed the party to the cause of socialism and said South Africa should follow the Chinese and Cuban socialist models of economic policy. In a wide-ranging […]
Public reaction to sentencing practices has probably had the most significant impact upon the legitimacy of the judiciary. Over the past 12 months we have witnessed considerable dissatisfaction as a result of perceived lenience in the imposition of sentences for rape. For these reasons a comprehensive report authored by leading academic Dirk van Zyl Smit […]
Grant Shimmin OLYMPICS When Josia Thugwane won the marathon title at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, it was a victory that came out of the blue, for the world of road running and for South Africans in general. He might have been the national marathon champion and have won several times in and out of […]
Paul Edmunds REVIEW OFTHEWEEK Are 35 sagmakers more effective than a few well-aimed jabs? Yes and no, it would seem, in light of Soft Serve 2: Art at Play, which took place at the National Gallery in Cape Town on Friday. The boxing metaphor might seem inappropriate when recounting tales of a multimedia art happening, […]
Don Albert It’s alarming just how misunderstood jazz is in South Africa. Jazz is, after all, a form which provides the purveyor with basic as well as intangible rules. Unlike the 100m dash or an office memo, there is no specific format. It’s amazing that everyone is a so called “classical music” listener; maybe that […]
Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER Last year it was the top end of the Castle Premiership standings that kept us on the edge of our seats as Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs took their battle for the title down to the wire. Sundowns defeated now-defunct Cape Town Spurs 2-0 at a freezing Odi Stadium to snatch first place […]
Who better than David Ginola to replace Princess Diana as the Red Cross’s ambassador on landmine control? On the eve of his trip to Cambodia, the Gallic glory boy talks to Denis Campbell The dark sunglasses, non- descript grey clothes and floppy hat pulled down over his eyes are a poor disguise. Almost everyone in […]