Chiara Carter Tensions within the New National Party in its Western Cape stronghold reached the status of open warfare this week with the MEC for Agriculture and Property Management, Lampie Fick, at odds with the NNP chair of the province’s finance committee, Jeanne-Pierre Gerber, over the sale of state land. Fick, a senior politician close […]
industry shrouded in mist Stuart Millar and Will Woodward For wildlife enthusiasts, Uganda’s densely forested mountain region has an almost religious significance. One of the world’s richest ecosystems, it is also the last place on earth where visitors can catch a glimpse of mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. But as travel companies began cancelling […]
CABINET decided on Wednesday that the government should appeal against a Cape High Court judgment that a non-South African citizen who is the partner of a South African citizen of the same sex should be entitled to permanent residence. Government communications and information service head Joel Netshitenzhe said the government believes this amounts to discrimination […]
RONNIE ELLIOTT and AFP, Cape Town | Wednesday 2.50pm. PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela announced on Wednesday that the second democratic elections will be held on June 2. Announcing the long-awaited date in Parliament, Mandela said that while he would have preferred a date in the second half of May, “consideration of the Independent Electoral Commission’s arguments, […]
CAMBODIA said on Wednesday it favours a truth commission similar to South Africa’s. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said rather than put Khmer Rouge leaders on trial and risk jeopardising a shaky peace, he preferred a South African-style truth commission. In a letter to Secretary General Kofi Annan, Hun Sen warned that trials might “panic” […]
RETAIL trade sales figures for December and for the fourth quarter of 1998 show that real retail trade sales have kept up the declining trend that set in at the beginning of 1998. According to figures released on Wednesday by Statistics South Africa, real retail trade sales (at constant 1995 prices) for 1998 decreased by […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 5.30pm. JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar appealed on Thursday for greater community participation in apprehending criminals but was careful to steer away from a sanction of vigilantism. He said community anti-crime actions should take place within the law. Addressing a conference of the Community Dispute Resolution Trust in Cape Town, […]
THE National Assembly on Wednesday approved amendments to the tobacco bill raised by President Nelson Mandela concerning the bill’s constitutionality. The amendments exclude private homes from the definition of workplace, where smoking is to be banned.
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) has banned top referee Petrus Mathabela from officiating any matches it runs. PSL boss Joe Ndhlela said the Board of Governors agreed to implement the recommendations of the Motimele Commission, which investigated bribery and match-fixing in the last PSL season. Mathabela fell afoul of the decision at the PSl which […]
AN EASTERN Cape woman said to be 114 years old died after she was raped by 29-year-old man, police said Wednesday. Dina Boesaka was raped her in her home in Kwanonzamo township near Humansdorp by a man apparently known to her. She died later in hospital. “Family members say Mrs. Boesaka was 114 years old […]