
Absa ducked a R16m damages claim on a legal technicality but now faces R250m demands arising from wrongful actions of its predecessor, Volkskas When wealthy Durbanville farmer Francis Albert Murray Louw senior (known to ...
Dream of exclusive community lands far-rightists in the red. Kleinfontein, poor cousin of the all-white town of Orania, is being torn apart by death threats, litigation, a qualified audit and calls from residents ...
Recent mail strikes are ruining businesses – and could spell The End for the state-run service. Frustration with the Post Office has reached fever pitch, particularly in the publishing and mail-order businesses that depend on ...
Four little words kicked off Toyota man’s peripatetic lifestyle. When he was in his twenties, second-hand Toyota car salesman Milden “Milly” Lurie single-handedly scuppered Automark’s multi-million-rand “our dealers never lie” TV commercial. It ...
Small, family-run farms are the answer to world hunger. But the large conglomerates are determined to squeeze them out of existence. This year’s World Food Day has come and gone – on 17 October – ...
So Durban’s most widely detested citizen, erstwhile city manager Dr Michael Sutcliffe has agreed to drop his R10,5m defamation suit against the man who replaced him. This was, of course, only if ...
The spiralling cost of indemnity insurance could drive doctors from private hospitals. The soaring costs of private indemnity insurance for medical specialists in the higher-risk specialist fields could, ironically, benefit state patients and improve ...
Under-budgeting for mental health is costing SA billions. Grossly inadequate government spending on mental health – a disease affecting one-in-four South Africans – is costing South Africa 2.2% of its annual GDP, with ...
Arsonist firefighter. France lifts deposed Burkino Faso president from flames Summing up the 27-year rule of Burkinabè ex-President Blaise Compaoré as the opposition gathered on the streets of Ouagadougou, a French political analyst ...
All of Sydney (and Australia) was relieved when 11-year-old Michelle Levy, who had disappeared from her Bondi home in a white party dress, returned two nights later. While thousands had combed the streets, ...
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