The beleaguered Pan Africanist Congress’s national congress this weekend at Soweto’s Vista University looks set to be every bit as controversial as its postponed predecessor as dismissed members are being lobbied to stand for the party’s top posts.
The evidence that hip-hop has been residing in South Africa for some years now is spray-painted on numerous walls in characteristic graffiti art. But hip-hop is about more than graffiti, writes Dikatso Mametse.
Maxwell Nemadzivhanani, the suspended Limpopo chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress, has been instructed to appear before a national disciplinary committee next week at the PAC headquarters in Johannesburg.
Stanley Mogoba, president of the Pan Africanist Congress, has dissolved the Limpopo provincial executive committee (PEC), the power base of provincial chairperson Maxwell Nemadzhivhanani, his main rival for the party’s presidency.
Back in 1999, 31 mothers in rural Giyani, Limpopo Province, decided one day that they would no longer sit around another day unemployed and impoverished.
Four years later the initiative they devised that day has produced more than 200 self-employed businesswomen.
Though 70% of Americans in the United States back their president’s decision to go to war and approve of the way he is handling the situation in Iraq, most expatriates living in South Africa appear to be ashamed of George W Bush.
Though 70% of Americans in the United States back their president’s decision to go to war and approve of the way he is handling the situation in Iraq, most expatriates living in South Africa appear to be ashamed of George W Bush.
Relatives gathered at Johannesburg International airport to bid goodbye to loved ones they may never see again as they headed for Iraq to act as human shields. The 35 human shields are South African men and women driven by faith and the belief that they will return home.
A Nigerian drug lord once offered Senior Superintendent Ernest Madzhie R1-million to look the other way; the cop stared him straight in the eyes, handcuffed him and escorted him to jail.
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/ 19 February 2003
Cash-strapped libraries throughout South Africa face fresh financial hardships that could cause many to collapse. Librarians fear that budget cuts and new funding mechanisms will bring many public libraries to their knees