South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) is urging its members to live a healthy lifestyle, which should include ”at least 30 minutes” of exercise a day. In a document released ahead of the December national conference, entitled Policy Discussion Documents, the ruling party devotes a section to ”healthy lifestyles”.
The troubled new electronic national traffic information system was back online for vehicle registration from 8am on Tuesday morning, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said later in the day. The problem with vehicle registration ”has not gone without being noticed”, he said.
The overwhelming majority of South Africans are proud to be South African and these people also believe in democracy, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Addressing a summit of the National Council of Provinces, Mbeki noted that a recent survey conducted by Markinor and the University of Stellenbosch found that 95% of citizens were proud to be South Africans.
Outgoing official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon bid farewell in his final internet column, <i>SA Today</i>, which since its launch in February 2003 has focused largely on the state of democracy, including critiques of the ruling African National Congress and its governance.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon met South African President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday ahead of bowing out as official opposition leader on Sunday. Leon’s spokesperson, Martin Slabbert, said it was a chance to ”say goodbye”, but it had been a private meeting.
No policy has been adopted to detain multi- or extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) patients, acting health minister Jeff Radebe said on Wednesday. He was replying to a written question from Democratic Alliance health spokesperson Gareth Morgan.
Politicians running local governments across the country have been read the riot act by Finance Minster Trevor Manuel, who says that the argument about capacity constraints 13 years into democracy in South Africa is wearing thin. South Africa’s councillors have been urged to spend the available resources of local government wisely.
Helen Zille will win next weekend’s DA federal leadership election “hands down”, a prominent DA official has predicted. But she will need to have superwoman qualities to hold the party together once she dons the leadership mantle. The knives are out in the Western Cape, where provincial leader Theuns Botha and Zille were called in on Monday by outgoing leader Tony Leon.
The prospect of President Thabo Mbeki staying on as African National Congress (ANC) head would harm the country, official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon said on Monday. At a farewell meeting in Port Elizabeth the DA leader said an anointed presidential successor would become a ”puppet president owing his or her position to Mbeki”.
The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) will on Friday finalise the order in which the names of candidates will appear on the ballot-papers that will be used during the election process at the party’s congress in Gauteng in May. This will be done by means of a draw.