Eight municipal by-elections take place on Wednesday May 7 which will test the mettle of South Africa’s three major political parties — the African National Congress (ANC), the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).
South African President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday ruled out granting a general amnesty to perpetrators of gross human rights violations during the apartheid era.
A Bill is in the legislative pipeline in South Africa which addresses the issue of sex changes, South African Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Tuesday.
Legislation will be put to the South African Parliament this year to ease the release of information from the National Population Registry to the private sector, says Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
South African electricity utility Eskom will not be allowed to invest in new generation capacity in the domestic market to ensure meaningful participation of the private sector in electricity in the medium term.
The draft Liquor Bill leaves the position of supermarket retailing of liquor
products unclear, and could allow hard tack and beer to be sold in competition with other outlets — like bottle stores.
South Africa’s Inkatha Freedom Party parliamentary caucus on Thursday discussed the impact of the defection period on the party — and party sources indicated that the party could withdraw from national government if its control of KwaZulu Natal is snatched away.
The New National Party, which was hit by 17 defections from its ranks in the two week defection period for politicians, has gained its first two defectors.
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi accused MPs serving on the Home Affairs portfolio committee Tuesday of treating him ”as a political doormat” in a tetchy interaction on Tuesday.