Since there is no legal category of a ‘family home’ available within the deeds system, families in townships across South Africa must defend their homes without the benefit of the law.
Colonel Gavin Jacob has insisted he was not involved in any criminality relating to a R200m cocaine consignment stolen from a Hawks building in KwaZulu-Natal. But he says he could have acted differently in dealing with the matter and will shoulder some blame.
Group D features the US, who are co-hosts and under pressure to deliver on home soil. Australia are not quite the force they once were, while Turkey and Paraguay might be the group favourites.
After uncovering Antarctic prospecting by Moscow’s Akademik Alexander Karpinsky, Daily Maverick’s probing questions may have prompted a bizarre and lightning-fast escape at 97 knots.
The MK Party has yet again tweaked its leadership structures, deploying its senior national leaders to Mpumalanga and the North West to bolster its electoral fortunes ahead of the local government elections on 4 November.
Hezbollah’s chief on Thursday rejected a conditional truce announced by Lebanese and Israeli envoys, demanding instead a comprehensive ceasefire and full Israeli withdrawal as he threatened northern Israel with new attacks.