THURSDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH African tennis international Wayne Ferreira seems set on a career as a serial loser after bowing out of a major tournament once again. The third seed and world number 10 opted out of the first round of the $425 000 BMW Open yesterday with the same 6-3 6-4 score against the same […]
THURSDAY, 2.00PM: TWO stock thieves were shot dead and several people were injured yesterday afternoon when a group of rustlers on horseback attacked a group of SA and Lesotho security force members rounding up stolen livestock at Qubenga on the Lesotho border. About 60 horsemen surrounded the group, firing on them and attacking them with […]
South Africa is battling to contain a criminal economy whose roots lie in the covert war and cross-border struggles of the past, reports Stephen Elli SOUTH AFRICA has become a democracy, but the country is now witness to a level of crime which causes deep concern to its citizens and its government. The notion that […]
South Africa can influence human rights abusers by maintaining contact, writes Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad IN an article under the heading “SA open to business with anyone who pays” (April 4 to 10), the Mail & Guardian presupposes that South Africa has a one-dimensional approach to developing relations with certain countries where human rights […]
Bestselling author Kathy Lette recently visited South Africa. MADELEINE WACKERNAGEL met her ONE morning spent eavesdropping in Sandton Square was enough to convince Kathy Lette that her next book had to have a South African element. “What great material! I actually overheard someone saying `Ja well, no fine’!” She describes her discovery of that great […]
RUGBY:Steve Morris THE one surprising aspect of the positive dope tests on several top players is that anyone should be surprised by them having turned up. Northern Transvaal’s Springbok lock Johan Ackermann and the Gauteng Lions pair Bennie Nortje and Stefan Bronkhorst tested positive earlier in the season and now a specimen from Northerns prop […]
Stuart Hess MURIEL JACOBS has received R565 in child maintenance from the government since April last year to look after her two children. The grant, she says is not enough: “I can’t cope with R565, things are getting more expensive. Where must I get money from for everything I need at home?” Jacobs has two […]
Tangeni Amupadhi BRIAN MORROW, the former police officer who blew the whistle on the “Inkathagate” scandal, is a disappointed man. From his home in England he asked the minister of safety and security if he could rejoin the police force because he now feels it is safe to return to South Africa. But he was […]
If playing in the Super 12 is like playing a Test every week, then the matches this weekend are the series decider for three South African teams RUGBY:Steve Morris INTERESTING that South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) supremo, Louis Luyt, would pick this week to espouse his enthusiasm for the Super 12 series. True, Luyt […]
A culture of reckless driving is creating havoc on the roads, but what is the government task team doing to put the taxi industry on the road to recovery? Dawn Blalock reports MPHO MAKHAYA, one month shy of her 17th birthday, is recovering in Leratong Hospital from neck and leg injuries she sustained when the […]