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Principal pleads guilty to sexually harassing pupil
Married father of three WhatsApped 15-year-old to demand sex
CEO ordered to vacate R35m home for failing to pay for it
The CEO of a company that wants to tackle load-shedding with gas imports has been ordered to vacate his R35m home on Joburg’s most expensive street because he failed to pay for it.
Ship owner wants R5m in damages for SA Weather Service’s missing storm warning
The owner of a ship that broke free of its mooring during a storm wants R5m in damages from the South African Weather Service for failing to issue a warning.
Phoenix conflagration came from the ashes of many past fires
Two months after clashes in Phoenix claimed 36 lives in July last year, Ashwin Desai visited the township north of Durban and found peace — or what he calls “normalised violence” — had been restored, writes Dave Chambers.
Wanted: some adults to make a coalition work
Social Research Foundation findings suggest the public will support a ‘grand coalition’ if it delivers a tangible difference to their lives ,writes Dave Chambers.
Would-be single father's dream of a child blocked in court
Infertile lawyer wants to use donor sperm and a surrogate mother, but SA law says that's too complicated.
Sars cleans up, netting billions as it shuts down tax dodges
Tax dodges totalling tens of billions of rands were thwarted in the past year, SA Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Edward Kieswetter has revealed.
Passenger has lucky escape after big bustard flies into plane’s propeller
When Africa's largest flying bird collides with an aircraft 350 times heavier, it's obvious which of them will come off worst.
Off-tar and off-the-wall: A road trip in the Klein Karoo
Dirt roads, cars old and new, an alien crash site and a puzzled GPS are all part of the fun of going off-road in a place brimming with creative thinking
Cape Town refinery’s oily stalker fails to overturn sex-pest sacking
An oil refinery employee who was fired for sexually harassing and stalking two colleagues has failed in a court bid to get his job back.























