April2016

Super Rugby coaches to help pick Bok team?

SA Rugby is likely to scrap the traditional Springbok selection panel when the new national coach is announced. According to Rapport, the decision was taken at SA Rugby’s executive meeting on Friday. According to the weekly newspaper, South Africa’s Super Rugby coaches will help the new Bok coach pick the[…]

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O’Sullivan: Stop me if you can, Zuptas

Stop me if you can. So said forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivanin a daring e-mail threatening to expose alleged corrupt activities by President Jacob Zuma and top police officials. This was to be exposed at a media conference in London on Monday, but a 15-member Hawks team on Friday night stopped[…]

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Malema ‘survives police harassment’

Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema claims police allegedly forced him out of his car and pointed rifles at him in Sandton on Sunday night. At about 9pm on Sunday night, Malema tweeted: “Just survived police harassment at Grayston off-ramp,12 police men pointed me with rifles and forced me out[…]

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Holding onto Jehaan

The scent of incense sticks filled my nostrils as I stood in the modest wendy house that Nashrullah Leonard rents in her mother-in-laws backyard in Belhar. She was overwhelmed to see me and ushered us to sit down on the seats that she quickly cleared out to make our stay[…]

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‘O’Sullivan was not fleeing the country’

Forensic consultant Paul O’Sullivan was not attempting to flee the country, his legal representatives said in a statement on Saturday evening. O’Sullivan was arrested on arrested by the Hawks at OR Tambo International Airport on Friday night in front of his two children. Private investigator Mike Bolhuis on Saturday told[…]

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Man held after lover’s fatal stabbing

Police have arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend several times in Lusaka, Nyanga, in Cape Town on Friday, Western Cape police said. “The woman later died in hospital due to her injuries. The suspect is under police guard in hospital as he also stabbed himself in the[…]

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South African – Expected fuel price hikes

South Africans will have to dig even deeper into their pockets after massive fuel prices hikes this coming week. The Department of Energyon Saturday announced the fuel price adjustments for April. The department announced that petrol 95 (both ULP & LRP) will increase by 88c a litre and 93 (both[…]

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FBI iPhone hack likely to leak

The FBI’s method for breaking into a locked iPhone 5c is unlikely to stay secret for long, according to senior Apple Inc engineers and outside experts. Once it is exposed, Apple should be able to plug the encryption hole, comforting iPhone users worried that losing physical possession of their devices[…]

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Kenya marks anniversary of Garissa massacre

Students who survived the massacre at Garissa University in Kenya last year are still struggling to cope with the trauma of losing their friends who were shot and killed by the al-Shabab fighters. A year ago, attackers from the Somali armed group stormed the Garissa University College campus in the[…]

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