Witnesses beaten, bribed by vigilantes

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 …Share this:Click to share on...

Smithfield’s Platteland Preview festival: programme!

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...

Couple’s divorce fight: all SA must pay

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 …Share this:Click...

Top sports’ sponsor must pay up over discrimination

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? –  …Share...