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It appears it will be a while before the African National Congress is welcomed with open arms into Ulundi, the traditional stronghold of the Inkatha Freedom Party, if Saturday’s response to an ANC election campaign is anything to go by. A large group of IFP supporters attempted to disrupt an ANC meeting in the KwaZulu-Natal town.
Special Report: Elections 2004
The victory of African slaves over French rule in Haiti in the 1800s should be used by Africans to inspire them to address successfully the challenges facing them across the world, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. He was spreaking at the Sixth African Renaissance Conference in Durban.
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The most critical challenge facing South Africa in its next 10 years of democracy is the issue of poverty, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday night. ”These [general] elections are about what we need to do in our second decade of freedom,” Mbeki told a gathering at the Pietermaritzburg city hall.
Zimbabwe will solve its problems quickly once formal negotiations get underway in that country, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday. He said the ruling Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change would go into formal talks with an agenda currently being set in informal negotiations.
Thousands of students at the Witwatersrand technikon protested in Johannesburg on Wednesday against management changing rules without consulting them.
In celebration of former president Nelson Mandela’s 85th birthday on Friday, he was handed a book highlighting his speeches and tributes paid to him by world leaders.
South Africa is the main destination for the trafficking of people for the sex trade in southern Africa, a report has found. Victims are from most countries in the region as well as from Thailand, China and eastern Europe.
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/ 7 February 2003
Locals in Soweto, south of Johannesburg, believe that in a few years’ time cricket might be more popular than their favourite sport — soccer.
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/ 17 January 2003
South Africans are marginally more pessimistic about this year than they were about 2002, an international survey has found.
South Africa’s women are on par with their American counterparts when its comes to being overweight or obese.