John Matshikiza ‘We go anywhere in South Africa where there is a railway line,” says Lynette Coetzee, senior manager of Transnet’s Phelophepa health-care train project. “In fact, we sometimes even go where there is no railway line. One time, when we were going to Qamata [in the Eastern Cape] it turned out that the line […]

Judge Edwin Cameron Tonight I am talking not as a lawyer or as a judge. I am talking as a person living with this virus in my body, who knows what it is like to feel deathly sick and to fear death. I also know what it is like to recover and to start feeling […]

Parks Mankhlana The presidency spent considerable time the past week searching frantically for a passage in the president’s speeches which said an HIV-positive condition does not lead to Aids. Neither his private correspondence nor a reconstruction of all the discussions with either his ministers or any other authority on the question of HIV and Aids […]

Scientific knowledge is only ever provisional. Whatever the rigour applied in trying to establish it, it survives only for as long as it is not falsified or a better explanation for something is not put forward. So there is something to be said for the person who sets out to falsify all or part of […]

AFRICAN Wanderers found themselves on the receiving end of a 4-1 drubbing as Bush Bucks found some relief from a dogged battle with relegation at the Independence Stadium in Umtata on Wednesday. Bucks were in no mood to fool about and attacked from the word go — scoring their first goal through Wilfred Mugeyi in […]

THE Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that German billionaire Jurgen Harksen is liable for extradition and that a section of the Extradition Act contested by Harksen’s attorneys is constitutional. The judgment was a unanimous decision by all of the Constitutional Court judges. Harksen is wanted on several fraud and tax evasion. Extradition proceedings will now […]

DEPUTY Agriculture Minister Dirk du Toit is to lead a delegation to Britain on Saturday to inspect farms and abattoirs as a final step towards lifting a South Africa ban on British beef. The ban, imposed in 1998, was in response to an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or “mad cow” disease, among Britain’s beef […]

PETER DICKSON, East London | Friday 12.10pm REPRESENTATIVES of the 1300 Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) workers who were sacked in January are lobbying for international support, while troops this week patrolled the streets of Uitenhage to keep the peace in the wake of the strike. The employees from VWSA’s Uitenhage plant were axed after they […]

IVOR POWELL, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00am. THE controversial third cellular licensing process was thrown into jeopardy this week as embattled councillors from the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority failed to reach a consensus to rubber-stamp its earlier decision to recommend the Cell C consortium. In this week’s meetings, two of the five councillors who earlier […]

THE search for bodies of four rafters still missing since flash floods hit the Storms River last weekend will be called off on Saturday morning. On Friday morning the body of one of the missing was found by a member of the public at the Storms River mouth — bringing to nine the bodies recovered. […]