A 48-year-old schoolteacher was shot dead in Ekhombe, in the Nkandla area, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Thursday. ”Teressa Mbanjwa was found dead in her cottage around 8am on Wednesday with her head smashed beyond recognition. It is suspected that she was shot at close range the previous night,” Captain Vusi Mbatha said.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation apologised on Thursday for not showing Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka being booed at a rally in Utrecht in KwaZulu-Natal on Women’s Day. ”The SABC apologises unreservedly to the public for not airing the footage,” the public broadcaster said.
Trade union Solidarity said on Friday that a lack of cooperation was causing unnecessary delays in the investigation into last September’s explosion at oil and chemicals group Sasol’s Secunda plant. The explosion killed 10 people and injured more than 300 others.
The JSE was back in the black in noon trade on Friday as buyers returned following three days of profit-taking. Retailers put in a strong showing following solid results reported by Truworths on Thursday. At 12.03pm, the all share and all share industrial indices were 0,76% and 0,61% stronger respectively.
Author, Letepe Maisela, is a champion of black economic empowerment, but the empowerment in <i>The empowered native </i> is anything but economic, writes Sabata-mpho Mokae.
<i>Acid Alex</i> is the autobiography that traces a life lived across a South African terrain that might not be familiar to that many of us, writes Chris Roper.
He’s the archetypal screen tough guy, but Al Pacino hates guns, drinks only coffee, writes Simon Hattenstone.
Outside of making a tough statement about South Africa’s language issues <i>Zulu love letter</i> breaks new ground in creating in representation a language for a character who is both black and deaf, writes Muff Andersson.
If our film critics are going to be with us for life, asks Muff Andersson, should we not think about forcing them to go on regular upgrade programmes?
Israeli troops pushed through a barricade of flaming cars and fanned-out throughout the small Gadid settlement on Friday, a day after youths holed up on a synagogue rooftop pelted soldiers with acid, oil and sand in the most violent protest against Israel’s Gaza pullout.