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ArticleWOOLWORTHS ON HIGH ALERT

WOOLWORTHS has ramped up secur­ity meas­ures and placed stores across South Africa on heightened alert fol­low­ing two explo­sions at its branches in Pre­toria and Bloem­fon­tein, while the South African Police Ser­vice (SAPS) says it is still too...

ArticleStel­len­bosch stu­dents expelled after humi­li­at­ing ‘bed-flip­ping’ stunt

ArticleRhino poach­ers’ R5.86 mil­lion assets frozen by the Hawks

THE Dir­ect­or­ate for Pri­or­ity Crime Invest­ig­a­tion (Hawks) has secured a pre­ser­va­tion order over four prop­er­ties val­ued at R5 860 000 linked to a rhino horn traf­fick­ing and poach­ing syn­dic­ate, fol­low­ing a coordin­ated multi-agency...

ArticleTHE HANGOUT

THINGS are chan­ging. You’re prob­ably think­ing wowzers, this girl is a genius. I know, right? But ser­i­ously though, I really do think things are chan­ging, and not just here in South Africa but around the world. I’m talk­ing socially. I’m talk­ing...

ArticleSA’S crisis of power­less­ness and mis­placed anger

ArticlePOETIC LICENCE

A REVOLUTION once asked people to die for free­dom. Now it asks par­lia­ment­ary research­ers for debit orders, min­is­ters for resig­na­tions, pres­id­ents for explan­a­tions about dol­lars hid­den beneath fur­niture. Some­where between the bal­lot...

ArticleRam­a­phosa’s wild prom­ise to Bafana

I UNDERSTAND get­ting behind your team, being pat­ri­otic and being con­fid­ent about the task ahead, but for Pres­id­ent Cyril Ram­a­phosa to sug­gest Bafana Bafana have any chance of win­ning the Fifa World Cup is simply ridicu­lous. As the Bafana...

ArticleON THIS DAY

1381 Eng­land’s Peas­ants’ Revolt begins. Also called Wat Tyler’s Rebel­lion, it was the first great pop­u­lar rebel­lion in Eng­lish his­tory. Its imme­di­ate cause was the impos­i­tion of the unpop­u­lar poll tax, which brought to a head the...