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ArticleAdv John­son admits to mis­use of legal pro­cess

THE action taken by the Invest­ig­at­ing Dir­ect­or­ate Against Cor­rup­tion (IDAC) to arrest Crime Intel­li­gence head Lieu­ten­ant-Gen­eral Dumis­ani Khu­malo and other senior police offi­cials linked to the alleged irreg­u­lar appoint­ment of...

ArticleCourt upholds R50 000 over What­s­App hate speech

FORWARDING hate speech still con­sti­tutes pub­lic­a­tion and it pro­motes hate speech, the Bloem­fon­tein High Court ruled in con­firm­ing an earlier order that a mem­ber of the Mangaung Met­ro­pol­itan Coun­cil had to pay R50,000 com­pens­a­tion to...

ArticleSAMWU hits back at Treas­ury des­pite release of with­held muni­cipal fund­ing

THE National Treas­ury's decision to pay out equit­able share fund­ing it had with­held from poor-per­form­ing muni­cip­al­it­ies came after extens­ive dam­age was already done, leav­ing many muni­cip­al­it­ies unable to pay work­ers' salar­ies in July.

ArticleMacph­er­son defends his R186k hotel bill

PUBLIC Works and Infra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Dean Macph­er­son has defen­ded the R186 150 for his hotel stay in Gauteng over the past two years, say­ing it saved the depart­ment about R1.3 mil­lion. Respond­ing to par­lia­ment­ary ques­tions from ATM...

ArticleFrom Durban classrooms to robot intel­li­gence at Har­vard uni­versity

ArticlePol­ish vil­lage puts faith in Europe's tallest Vir­gin Mary statue

A POLISH bil­lion­aire is pay­ing for a giant statue of the Vir­gin Mary that res­id­ents of the vil­lage of Kono­topie hope will put them on the pil­grim­age map. At 55 metres high, the con­crete and steel fig­ure is the tallest Marian statue in...