THE SA Revenue Service plans to recruit about 100 additional full-timeauditors and about 30 forensic auditors in the coming months in order to deliver on its undertaking to collect R210,4billion in taxes in 2000-2001. Business Day reports that this would be 7,2% higher than this year’s achievement. It reports that SARS commissioner Pravin Gordhan said […]

LESOTHO have named three foreign-based players in their 20-man squad for a Cosafa Castle Cup first round match against Zimbabwe in Harare on March 5. South African-based Lebajoa Mphongoa and Lehlohonolo Seema of Bloemfontein Celtic and goalkeeper Thabo Khoboli from second division Ria Stars join up with 17 Lesotho-based players in the squad. The team […]

A MAN suspected of murdering his lover’s three-year-old son over the weekend has been handed over to police. The suspect’s brother found him hiding in a mealie field at Rietfontein 7 farm, 30km from Lydenburg, where both of them work. Provincial police spokeswoman Inspector Olga Marais said the suspect was taken to the farmer, who […]

THE prosecutor of the UN warcrimes and genocide tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Carla Del Ponte, said on Wednesday she would ask judges to hold some future trials directly in those countries. “It would be desirable that the (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda – ICTR) could hold its trials directly in Kigali,” Carla […]

GRANTS for the elderly and the disabled are to increase only slightly, by R20 to R540 a month, Manuel announced in Parliament. The total welfare budget has been increased by approximately R1,25-billion to a total of R20,92-billion. Provincial welfare departments currently pay monthly benefits to more than three million of society’s most vulnerable beneficiaries, at […]

PARLIAMENTARIANS on Tuesday rained praise on former president Nelson Mandela at a special debate on his release from apartheid jails a decade ago and proposed that his bust be erected in the legislature. The proposal was mooted by ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni and supported by opposition politicians, who voiced as much admiration for Mandela […]

ALTHOUGH Queen “Iyaya” Sesoka, lead vocalist of popular Kwaito group Abashante, is still missing after disappearing on Tuesday, police say while they are aware of it, no missing person’s case has been reported. The 25-year-old singer’s disappearance took a strange turn on Friday when the Sowetan newspaper reported that a caller claiming he was in […]

Bob Woolmer FROM THE PAVILION The recent tug of war over Allan Donald mirrors, in a way, the club or country pull that Bafana Bafana players are experiencing. In all these matters, inevitably, it is the player who suffers. Naturally Donald wants to play for South Africa – as I am sure Mark Fish does. […]

The imprint of apartheid is clearly evident in staff composition at universities and technikons across South Africa Barry Streek The academic staff at South Africa’s 36 public universities and technikons are still overwhelmingly white and male dominated, particularly at the historically white institutions, according to the Council for Higher Education. The council has found 80% […]

SOUTH African star cricketer Barry Richards has been shorlisted to coach the Pakistan national cricket side, a senior Pakistan Cricket Board official said on Thursday. “We have decided to talk to either England’s former test player Geoffrey Boycott or South African Barry Richards in the next couple of days,” PCB manager operations Yawar Saeed said. […]