Less than a week after the verbal blunder that led to Darren Scott’s resignation, another popular DJ has come under attack following sexist comments made on national radio, IOL News reported on Monday.

5fm DJ Gareth Cliff has been reported to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of SA (BCCSA) following an on-air interview with 27-year-old Aids activist Angela Larkan, in which he remarked that “girls of 22 usually do nothing but lie on their backs with their legs open”.

According to The Mercury, Cliff’s manager, Rina Broomberg, denied that such remarks were made, claiming that Cliff would never have said “something like that”.

Thought Leader contributer Jennifer Thorpe voiced her concern on the matter this morning:

“[Cliff's] comments were offensive and I think the report was completely justified. His defence of his comments shows how ingrained his sexism is — if it were a comment that were racist he would understand that racism is offensive to everyone in a democracy based on equality. The same goes for sexism — when you undermine the rights of half the population, the entire population has a right to be offended.”

Read the full story here (via IOL News)

Judge Collin Lamont has ruled Malema’s controversial ‘shoot the boer’ song as hate speech, Times Live reported earlier today.

“No justification exist allowing the words to be sung… the words were in any event not sung on a justifiable occasion,” Collins said during the High Court ruling in Johannesburg. Malema was not in court at the time.

Read more here (via Times Live)

Allegations that sport ministry staff trashed a luxury hotel suite booked in the name of President Jacob Zuma at an awards ceremony at Sun City last week are “entirely false”, a spokesperson for Sport and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula said on Sunday.

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Free State African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) members were called up on Sunday for a solidarity gathering at the party’s Luthuli House headquarters in support of league president Julius Malema and others.

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President Jacob Zuma’s candidate for South Africa’s next chief justice is embroiled in a new scandal – this time about his endorsement of the death penalty.

The National Association of Democratic Lawyers (Nadel) has lashed out at Judge Mogoeng Mogoeng’s “active participation” in pushing in 1988 for a man whose original legal team didn’t represent him properly, to be executed.

Read the full story here (via News24)

Retribution opens by panning across an arid, bleached landscape with a dramatic male voice-over saying something about justice and the order of things.

Soon, the camera settles on a patch of blood seeping into the dusty ground outside a rustic cottage, instantly establishing the film’s thriller genre. Within minutes, we determine that a retired judge (Joe Mafela) is on a writing retreat in this isolated cabin, where he is virtually cut off from the outside world.

Read the full review here (via The Mail and Guardian)

When Ntsiki Biyela won a winemaking scholarship in 1998, she was certainly a curious choice.

She had grown up in the undulating hills of Zululand, living in a small village of huts and shacks. People tended their patches of pumpkins and corn. The only alcohol they drank was homemade beer, a malt-fed brew that bubbled in old pots.

Read the full story here (via The New York Times)

Pupils at two Limpopo schools are living in fear following allegations that an evil spell has been cast on them.

The pupils of Masegela Lower Primary, and those of neighbouring Bosemahla Higher Primary in GaSemenya village in Moletji, near Polokwane, had been collapsing during school hours.

Read the full story here (via The Sowetan)

Ministers, MPs, magistrates, the president, premiers, judges, and traditional leaders have been granted a humble 5% salary increase, almost making those public servants (6.8%) look greedy.

But then again, they get paid a bit more. There are even plans link the top dogs’ pay to performance in future, CARIEN DU PLESSIS reports.

Read the full story here (via The Daily Maverick)

We’re in the midst of strike season, and Samwu leadership got its industrial action wrong.

In fact, they’re getting it so spectacularly, superlatively wrong that they’ve inspired PAUL BERKOWITZ to write a primer on how not to go about striking. Other unions: take note. Do NOT try this in your union.

Read the full article here (via The Daily Maverick)

More than 66 000 toxicology and alcohol tests are outstanding across South Africa, with a five to six-year wait for the results of the 15 000 toxicology samples in Cape Town, Pretoria and Joburg.

Thanks to a severe backlog at the country’s three skills-strapped forensic chemistry laboratories, the national health department has confirmed that, as at the end of July, 15 000 toxicology reports, along with 37 000 drunk driving reports and 14 500 post-mortem alcohol reports were outstanding

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The amount of white whining that ensued after Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s call for a wealth tax made me proud.

I was starting to worry that white people were finally falling behind black people in the great race to prove conclusively that the best way to deal with an uncomfortable truth is to entirely misunderstand the issues. Now I see that democracy has worked in our country. We are truly all equally stupid and greedy.

Read the full story here (via Mail & Guardian)

The Jewish community can help the country to deal with the high unemployment rate, deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe said on Saturday.

“I believe that the South African Jewish board of deputies is well positioned to help us answer some of these challenges because of the skills, knowledge and influence your members wields as significant role players in the South African economy,” he said at the South African Jewish Board conference in Johannesburg.

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Police National Commissioner General Bheki has asked crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli to tell him why he should not be fired, according to a report on Sunday.

The Sunday Independent reported that it was in possession of a confidential letter by Cele, dated August 20, in which he gave Mdluli seven days to explain why he should remain a member of the police service.

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Several corruption probes, including that of ANC Youth League president Julius Malema, has been stalled due to lack of funds, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said according to a report on Sunday.

Madonsela confirmed members from her office met with the National Treasury to apply for R30m in emergency funding this week in order to cover salaries and operational expenses for more investigations, The Sunday Independent reported.

Read the full story here (via News24)

Court ruling leads to 5000 lifers qualifying for speedy parole hearings

Half the criminals sentenced to life behind bars in South Africa for rape, murder and other violent crimes will be considered for parole after serving less than 14 years in jail.

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Pollsmoor has traumatised the well-manicured Sandton widow of slain Judge Patrick Maqubela

Now Thandi Sheryl Maqubela – who has been charged with killing her husband at his Sea Point flat in 2009 – has been moved from the notorious prison, where she was held for 15 days.

Read the rest of this article here. (via Times Live)

Double amputee Oscar Pistorius produced the lone quality effort in a disappointing morning session for the South African athletics team at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, on Sunday.

Pistorius made history by finishing third in his 400m heat, clocking 45.39 — the second fastest time of his career — to progress to the semi-finals.

Read the full story here (via Times Live)

The Hawks are investigating a picture on Facebook in which a white man poses with a rifle over an apparently lifeless body of a black child, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday.

The image is on the profile of a user called, “Eugene Terrorblanche”, a play on the name of the murdered Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader.

Read the full story here (via IOL)