Bafana Khumalo on Rebecca Malope `I always wanted to be singer, ever since I was a child,” she responds to my first question as she stretches her black leather-clad legs across to the coffee table in front of us in the offices of her record company. She is Rebecca Malope and this always “wanting to […]

Mungo Soggot SACKED Transnet executive director Sipho Nyawo has launched a legal attack against the parastatal, Public Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau and the retired judge who presided over an internal inquiry about him. Nyawo was dismissed from his R830 000 job last year after Judge John Trengove found him guilty of 65 charges of credit […]

A TICK that has a toxin in its saliva that can kill animals may also have, in this secretion, a compound that can be used to treat human diseases. The Sandtampan tick, common to the arid regions of the Northern Cape, lives, like most ticks, on the blood of its host. So when it attaches […]

Gustav Thiel FOLLOWING bomb blasts at two homes of people linked to People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) in Cape Town this week, observers warned the organisation was creating an environment in which gangs could flourish. Pagad could end up promoting what it is trying to destroy, warned Don Pinnock, a former University of Cape […]

Squatters at Cape Town’s Waterfront could go to the Constitutional Court to fight their eviction, reports Gustav Thiel NEARLY 300 squatters living next to a proposed new entrance to the upmarket Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town could force the Constitutional Court to assess the constitutionality of the Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act. According […]

THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW IT is hard to imagine Major-General Refiloe Phelile Florence Sedibe (aka Jackie Sedibe and wife of Defence Minister Joe Modise) barking orders to stiff young soldiers. The country’s highest-ranking woman in the military is a shy, softly spoken, grey- haired matron, who looks like she should be at home baking cookies […]

Allegations of insider trading could sour Nissan manufacturer’s delisting from the JSE, writes Max Gebhardt The stormy relations between Automakers and investors entered a new phase this week with accusations that it botched its delisting announcement – opening the door to massive insider trading and heralding an embarrassing official investigation. The share price of the […]

Gustav Thiel GIANT wine co-operative KWV’s bid to be converted into a company is becoming increasingly controversial as industry stakeholders accuse it of trying to hang on to more than R1,6-billion worth of assets, accumulated during apartheid years. KWV’s members – 4 751 wine farmers – form an exclusive white club with an enormous stake […]

In which NATHAN ZENO gets to grips with the rarefied world of Cape Town models and their photographers 1. A picture … (in which Nathan tries to understand the reality of being a fashion photographer in South Africa) It’s not so much that the standard of fashion photography in South Africa is bad, it’s just […]