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IF vigilantes, working with the tacit agreement of the police, beat up witnesses and pay them to give false evidence, what hope do courts have of establishing the truth? This woeful state of affairs is not the nightmare child of a TV script-writer. It falls off the...

2014 Platteland Preview Programme (For more information, images etc go to the home of the Platteland Preview festival: www.smithfield.co.za) Friday 27 June *  4 – 5pm NGK Church Hall: Official opening of In Transit : A Bloemfontein group exhibition sponsored by...

YOU could read it as just another story of police incompetence. But it’s also about how one couple’s acrimonious divorce has financial implications for every single South African. It’s the case of ‘M’ against the Minister of Police, a matter heard in the high court,...

Trip Advisor, the international guests’ reviewing site, has tonight informed us that Trading Places has hit the winning spot in Smithfield for the second year in a row. The 2014 badge will be sent to us soon and then we’ll put it up on the site. Meanwhile, thanks to...

FUNNY the corners where discrimination against women still lurks, even in places where you’d never thought to look. For example, you wouldn’t expect to find it at the spring-water bottling factory of aQuelle natural and flavoured water, would you? –  especially given...

‘MR X’ wants to become an advocate. But he has a secret: some years ago he abducted his young daughter and they spent five years wondering around Europe on false documents with both Interpol and the South African police looking for them. Happily for all concerned the...

REMEMBER the fable about finding a great treasure of gold and jewels? You could help yourself, but only take as much as you could carry. Drop anything and it would all disappear; you’d be left with nothing at all. Strangely enough a lawyer out there is living proof of...

LIKE an endless family drama stretched over decades and generations, the bitter Vermeulen feud has dominated the lives of its members. Now the highest court has ruled: the family matriarch, the ‘Iron Lady of Outjo’, was not legally capable when she made a contentious...

Police have arrested a man in connection with the killing last weekend of respected Smithfield community leader, Ounooi Badenhorst, 77. She was shot in her home where she lived alone after the death of her husband Jurie last year. Police said they had acted on a...

IN a major decision delivered today the appeal court of Lesotho has removed the last obstacle in the way of impeachment hearings against a senior judge. The president of the court of appeal in Lesotho, Michael Ramodibedi, who is also the chief justice of Swaziland,...