Shaun Smillie
Equal Times
Johannesburg, GP, South Africa
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German deal an “insult” to Namibia’s Ovaherero and Nama
On Google Earth, they look like a bumpy rash on the landscape. Zoom in closer and the bumps emerge as mounds in the desert sand, thousands of them in tight rows. Each of these mounds is an (...) → Read More
Bringing home the spirits of those long dead
For two months, Private Sikaniso Mtolo’s body drifted on the cold currents of the English Channel. He wasn’t alone. The Channel was littered with corpses in 1917, the victims of a bitter German U-boat campaign. But that cold February, many of those bodies were black, the dead from the troopship SS Mendi. → Read More
SA's 112 delay good for Wi-Fi
The introduction of an all-purpose emergencies phone number has been put on hold and the project's funding redirected to enable the provision of Wi-Fi across eight metropolitan municipalities. → Read More
Defence minister's taxi service
Minister of Defence Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has again been accused of improper use of government transport - this time a state vehicle to ferry a woman to the University of Cape Town. → Read More
Milky Way a distant memory for some
More than a third of the world's population can no longer see the Milky Way across the night sky because it is being concealed by the glare of artificial lights. → Read More
Binge-watchers anonymous
Latest news from South Africa, World, Politics, Entertainment and Lifestyle. The home of The Times and Sunday Times newspaper. → Read More
Duvet time as winter hits town
Light snow is expected to fall in Eastern Cape, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend. Highveld temperatures are likely to slip to below freezing point. On Sunday maximum temperatures will be about 15C in Pretoria and 12C in Johannesburg. The Weather Service says this is the first serious cold front and it will be followed by many more. → Read More
Economic Codesa
South Africa is flirting with recession and the government is talking tough about its planning for the country's economic hub, Gauteng. → Read More
Murder follows murder at platinum mine
Latest news from South Africa, World, Politics, Entertainment and Lifestyle. The home of The Times and Sunday Times newspaper. → Read More
Vuwani poll delay fears over application to ConCourt
The Independent Electoral Commission is concerned that it might have to postpone municipal elections in Vuwani because of an application to the Constitutional Court. → Read More
Parakeets 'scramble' for Jozi nests
A new kind of immigrant is moving into the suburbs of Johannesburg - loud, bolshy and prone to giving the locals a hard time. Ring-necked parakeets were once only seen in cages in Johannesburg, but now these birds are rampant. → Read More
Downgrade 'a certainty'
A rally by the JSE and a firmer rand yesterday were taken as a sign that the markets remained positive even as tonight's sovereign debt rating announcement by S&P Global Ratings loomed. → Read More
Sex abuse of children rife
The first nationally representative study in South Africa has found that one in three children under the age of 17 has been a victim of sexual abuse. → Read More
SA takes giant green steps
South Africa has become the poster child for renewable power generation in Southern Africa, as the world last year saw the largest increase in this form of green energy. → Read More
'Staff afraid to blow whistle'
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela predicts an increase in ethical behaviour globally and in South Africa - but at present 42% of the employees in this country who are aware of misconduct are afraid to report it because they fear victimisation. → Read More
Capitec closes accounts linked to MMM
Latest news from South Africa, World, Politics, Entertainment and Lifestyle. The home of The Times and Sunday Times newspaper. → Read More
Public Protector drops ‘up in the air’ probe
As Public Protector investigations go‚ this was one of the more unusual cases that involved a minister using a luxury air force jet‚ and a cat fight between two members of the ANC executive. → Read More
No love lost in Parys
Norma Jubeba is waiting for news today. She will be sitting in her room on a floor that smells of urine, waiting for her daughters to tell her what happened in court. She would have gone herself, but her legs can no longer carry her. → Read More
Bare-buttocked striker loses her job
A pharmacy clerk at a Waterfall City hospital in Midrand lost her fight at the CCMA to get her job back after she was dismissed for pulling down her pants and exposing her naked bottom. → Read More
Three more arrests in Parys farmworkers' murder
Three more suspects in the murders of Samuel Tjixa and Simon Jubeba are set to appear in the Parys Magistrate's Court today. → Read More