June
03, 2006
 
 
 

 
   

Alarm over increase in child-on-child sexual abuse

By Nicky Blatch

CHILDREN are increasingly falling victim to sexual abuse by other children in an appalling trend that experts say is linked to peer pressure, poverty, poor role models and television....

Walmer residents fear another ‘Kilt‘

By Lauren Cohen Deputy Chief Reporter

A proposed licensed restaurant named the Boar and Badger has Walmer residents hot under the collar – as the property is owned by the same owner as the notorious former Kilt and Claymore....

Engineers and doctors turning to lucrative perlemoen trade

By Lauren Cohen Deputy Chief Reporter

PERLEMOEN poaching has infiltrated the middle and upper classes, with professionals like doctors and engineers moving into the lucrative industry. ...

‘Irresponsible‘ strike action  has cost country billions

By Lauren Cohen Deputy Chief Reporter

SOUTH AFRICA has lost one million man-days to strikes this year, costing the economy billions of rands....

Students come clean on drugs

By Brian Hayward

THEY may attend institutions of higher learning, but some students spend much of their time learning to get high....

Gelvandale jockey returns with winners

By Lauren Cohen

A FORMER Gelvandale schoolboy rode home two winners at last Friday’s horse-racing meet at Arlington....


Hard-talking Moss hits nail on head

THANK heavens for the straightforward talk of Nelson Mandela Bay tourism chairman Nceba Moss, who has frankly and perhaps courageously criticised local politicians for delaying important tourism projects which should, by now, be pulling in tourists and interested locals but which appear to be going nowhere....

Dream lures actress to Karoo

AN AFRIKAANS actress, an elderly “bossie dokter” or herbalist, six dogs – all with names and surnames – and a cat live a simple but harmonious existence at the isolated foothills of two koppies on the sheep farm Theefontein, about 60km east of Beaufort West....

Greeff, Smith call the shots

By Viv Greybe

THE big stables of Alan Greeff and Gavin Smith certainly called the shots in the rain at Arlington yesterday before the meeting was called off after the running of the sixth race due to the dangerous underfoot conditions....

Moladi solves key low-cost challenges

By Roux van Zyl Business Reporter

WHO would have guessed that houses could be exported from Nelson Mandela Bay?...

Cedwyn Joel returns to ‘Hillside‘ as bad guy Stefan

RENOWNED local actor Cedwyn Joel has returned to the busy streets of SABC2‘s popular Afrikaans soap, 7de Laan.

Even though he only appeared briefly in the soap last year, some viewers will remember him as wealthy Stefan Arendse, father of Rick – the young man who got Vanessa Beukes pregnant during a one-night stand....


 
 
 
 
 
 
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