Dave Chambers Cape Town bureau chief

Dave Chambers is the Cape Town bureau chief for the Sunday Times and TimesLIVE.

Dave Chambers Cape Town bureau chief
Girls on top as Covid stress overturns newborn boys’ dominance

Tip in birth sex ratio has been observed before, such as in UK after Diana’s death and in Slovenia after 1991 war

Dave Chambers Cape Town bureau chief
Size isn’t everything but rather the survival of the thinnest ... roots

SA’s fynbos has proven it’s fine above the ground but also has the world’s finest roots

Dave Chambers Cape Town bureau chief
Private pilots battle with stoned drone, stray duiker — their own fallibility

CAA reports highlight a number of incidents in which aircraft were badly damaged, but no one injured or killed

Dave Chambers Cape Town bureau chief
Passenger has lucky escape after big bustard flies into plane’s propeller

When Africa's largest flying bird collides with an aircraft 350 times heavier, it's obvious which of them will come off worst.

Dave Chambers Cape Town bureau chief
Limpopo stabbing victim sets record with 95 days of positive Covid tests

Experts believe trauma increased his susceptibility, adding that the case has important diagnostic implications

Dave Chambers Cape Town bureau chief
Two teachers fired for sexual offences with grade 7 girls

The educators, in Limpopo and in Mpumalanga, were dismissed by Education Labour Relations Council arbitrators

Dave Chambers Cape Town bureau chief
Do look back in anger: ‘petty’ Oasis must pay staffer it exiled during lockdown

Company let complainant go with no further pay on the eve of lockdown, months before the end of his notice period

Dave Chambers Cape Town bureau chief
Dodgy meat and sanitiser in beer: Report reveals SA’s year of runny tummies

Sanitiser in homemade beer, dirty municipal drinking water and contaminated cake filling were behind some of the latest stomach bugs investigated by ...

Dave Chambers Cape Town bureau chief
Dunking for man who left swimming teacher lover high and dry after 17 years

Cape Town high court rules that after 17 years of cohabitation their relationship was akin to a universal partnership

Dave Chambers Cape Town bureau chief
Education bosses told to change tune after punishing teacher for singing in ...

A teacher who was given a final written warning for singing in a church choir has had it expunged after appealing.