THE END OF AN ERA
President Thabo Mbeki is expected to choose someone from outside the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to succeed its chief, Bulelani Ngcuka, who has asked to be allowed to step down when his sixth year in office expires ...
COPS AND COURTS HAMMER HIJACKERS IN GAUTENG
By Peter Honey
Car hijacking is down 30% this year in Gauteng, the province which routinely has accounted for nearly two-thirds of the country's hijackings. Police attribute the trend to an intensive antihijacking initiative using dedicated police task tea...
REPACKAGED OFFER COULD FLY
By David Furlonger
Vehicle assembly workers are being consulted this week on employers' new offer of a 7,5% wage increase. Though National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) negotiators are understood to have agreed in principle to the offer, they say they need ap...
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
By Itumeleng Mahabane
There is something fitting about SA - the last colonial frontier - becoming host to the Pan African Parliament (PAP). It feels like the completion of a circle, as the (bloody) fight against colonialism was never a "liberation-in-one-country" stru...
