Unhappy with your breast size, or plagued by sagging eyelids? Don’t bother calling a plastic surgeon – you can simply place your bids online as a top South African private hospital opens an Internet auction offering a range of plastic surgery operations with a starting price of one rand. Bidders logging on to www.bidorbuy.co.za will […]
JOHANNESBURG businessman Jonty Sandler has pleaded not guilty to a charge of indecent assault in the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court. Sandler allegedly sodomized a security guard at the Himeville Arms Hotel near Underberg on September 10 last year. The 21-year-old guard testified on Monday that Sandler arrived at the hotel around midnight and asked to be […]
GENSEC denied that US investment bank, JP Morgan, had made it a buy-out offer. “We have absolutely not been approached by JP Morgan as far as I am aware,” Gensec CEO Angus Samuels said. He said that Gensec, in its entirety, would be included as part of an eventual merger between Sanlam, Metropolitan and New […]
SOUTH Africa is facing an intensifying drug abuse crisis which sees about half the patients requiring specialist treatment in Gauteng reporting cannabis and/or Mandrax as their primary drug of abuse, according to a report by the Medical Research Council (MRC). Of more concern, says the report, is an increasing shift by mandrax-users to harder drugs […]
ZIMBABWE’S foreign exchange market remain short of hard currency amid increasing calls for a devaluation of the local unit, dealers said. ”Everyone is saying the only solution for our problem right now is a controlled devaluation to bring the exporters back in,” one dealer said. The market has been starved of money as exporters hold […]
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The controversial French film, Romance, broke the South African record for the biggest opening week ever for a foreign-language film. The film’s performance at the box office improves on previous records set by Roberto Benigni’s Oscar gem Life is Beautiful and the award winning Central Station. Romance explores the sexual odyssey of a young schoolteacher […]
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Alex Clark Martin Bauman: A Novel by David Leavitt (Little, Brown) The confessional genre, the colossal growth area in non-fiction of recent years, has attracted a healthy readership and a rather unhealthy amount of critical disdain. Why, detractors protest, must writers shine a light on the shabby corners of their lives simply because they have […]
Nigella Lawson Body Language For the first time in years, someone asked me how many men I’d slept with. To tell the truth, I couldn’t remember. That’s not because my youth was spent in such an oblivious promiscuous whirl – I think I probably lack the promiscuity gene, although I don’t, either, claim a nun-like […]