Minorities are more reluctant to vote in the next national election in South Africa — scheduled for 2004 — than their black counterparts, according to a Markinor poll conducted for the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
Anglican Archbiship Emeritus Desmond Tutu said on Friday that without someone like Nelson Mandela the new South Africa may not have got past first base.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born during the First World War on July 18, 1918, at Mvezo on the banks of the winding Mbashe River, also known as the Bashee.
South African Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya announced on Friday that 3,4-million children were now registered to receive a R160 a month child support grant — for the poorest of the poor.
Gauteng has notched up the highest figure in South Africa for abandoned babies, accounting for 268 of the 409 babies abandoned nationally last year, according to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
South Africa’s semi-privatised telephone utility Telkom is facilitating a quest for a world record for the most birthday wishes ever received by an individual on one day.
South African members of Parliament (MPs) were clearly informed of the procedures applying to the travel voucher scheme — now the subject of a forensic audit — as far back as August 2001, according to a circular issued by Parliament.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela is being honoured online ahead of his 85th birthday — on Friday July 18.
Common assault, drug related offences and the theft of motor vehicles or motorcycles are the major forms of crime at the Johannesburg International Airport.
State rail utility Spoornet receives revenue of R1,8-million a year for leasing 10 passenger coaches to the rail organisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), says Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe.