Dave Chambers is the Cape Town bureau chief for the Sunday Times and TimesLIVE.
‘Black fathers’ complaint about Standard Bank ad crashes and burns
NewsA viewer who claimed a Standard Bank TV ad featuring an astronaut was one giant leap backwards for black mankind has ...
Paramedics leapt to safety as chopper careered around hospital roof: report
NewsDetails of the drama, which unfolded on the 30m roof at 1am on February 19, emerged this week in a preliminary serious ...
R4.5m libel claim ends in another legal black eye for school admin assistant
NewsIf Cathy Botha had been successful in a R4.5m high court damages claim, she would have eclipsed the SA record for libel ...
Covid-19 rules that ignored reality of shack dwellers’ lives come under fire
NewsLockdown regulations that ignored the living conditions of shack-dwellers were "astonishing", according to a new ...
Principal who doubled matric pass rate fired for punching teacher
NewsA principal who doubled his school's matric pass rate by organising extra classes was furious when some pupils did not ...
Trophy hunting of rhino, leopards and elephants halted by court interdict
NewsTrophy hunting of leopards, black rhino and elephants has been halted by an interim interdict in the Cape Town high ...
‘Girls find me attractive,’ teacher accused of sex assault tells disciplinary hearing
NewsA talk about gender-based violence at a Cape Town primary school left a grade 7 girl in tears as she told a teacher ...
138 inmates get go-ahead to sue for R69m damages over prison ‘assaults’
NewsThe appeal court has given the go-ahead for 138 men to sue the government for R500,000 each over alleged assaults at St ...
SA TV news producer evacuated from Ukraine after ambush by Russian death squad
NewsA South African TV news producer and her four crew have been evacuated from Ukraine after two of them were shot by a ...
Businessman punished by second judge for campaign of abuse targeting top Joburg lawyer
News"I'm your nightmare," Andre Loots told a senior Johannesburg attorney in a May 2021 email. It was one of 54 abusive ...