staff Rehana Rossouw IN an attempt to build a case against two outspoken soldiers in his command, a colonel in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) made use of a classified Military Intelligence (MI) document, a court-martial in the Western Cape has revealed. Staff Sergeant Herman Pheiffer and Corporal Dawid Booysen, both based at […]

Marion Edmunds MEMBERS of the Reconstruction and Development Portfolio Committee say their committee should be resurrected by Parliament to monitor the work of ministers, provincial MEC’s and local government councillors. The committee was created to oversee the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). The RDP offices were closed nearly a year ago and its programmes parceled […]

Madeleine Wackernagel Jilted your partner recently? Upset your neighbour? And not declared your earnings? Be warned, the taxman cometh. With the amnesty out of the way on February 28, the Receiver of Revenue can now follow up on tip-offs from ex-wives, vengeful lovers and angry associates. Until now, the Receiver has been powerless to act […]

Mungo Soggot reports on the justice minister’s attitude towards a gun-free South Africa JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar says South Africans should be allowed to keep their guns until the country has a decent criminal justice system. Omar, who this week also warned against South Africa’s descent into vigilantism, said a gun-free country remained government’s long-term […]

Jose-Maria Olazabal once feared that he would end his life in a wheelchair but a stroke of luck and a brilliant doctor have brought him back to golf GOLF: David Davies JOSE-MARIA OLAZABAL is to play in the Dubai Desert Classic this week. After 18 months out of the game, it is dipping his toe […]

Although the high crime rate was the worst feature of the Olympic evaluation commission’s report, Cape Town still has a good chance of making the final five, writes Julian Drew THERE were no real surprises when the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) evaluation commission released it’s report in Lausanne last Thursday on the 11 candidate cities […]

Tim Radford Tough Choices: Facing The Challenge of Food Security (Earthscan, R75) Duke University in the United States has a rice diet house. People who tend to obesity check in and guinea pig-out on rice cooked without salt, and fruit, and lose weight and gain life expectancy. Most people in most countries of the world […]

Mail & Guardian Reporter IT is the end of the road for acid-burn victim Bernadette Gibson following the Appellate Division’s decision last week to spike her petition to appeal a R131000 damages award. Gibson suffered acid burns to her vagina and lower back at the hands of a negligent gynaecologist. But instead of walking away […]

JAZZ ON CD: Gwen Ansell In the beginning was the word. And long before slack, ragga, rap and hip-hop, the word was dub. As Jamaican music emerged from mento, rock-steady and ska in the 1970s, a new kind of artist was born. A whole generation of producers and DJs took advantage of increasingly sophisticated (but […]

HAZEL FRIEDMAN tries to get beneath the inscrutable surface of Arts minister Lionel Mtshali Picture a coat-tailed Victorian gentleman posing for one of those daguerreotype photographs and you’ll probably come up with a reasonable facsimile of Lionel Mtshali, Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. Starchily polite, unblinking, with an air of impenetrability effectively masking […]