The government has controversially exempted a third of KwaZulu-Natal’s land area from a draft tenure security law, in an apparent move to placate traditional leaders in the province.
The Inkatha Freedom Party is to forward hundreds of amnesty pleas by political criminals in its ranks to President Thabo Mbeki for presidential pardon. Welcoming the move, a Department of Justice representative, Paul Setsetse said he appreciated the IFP’s ”attempts to seek a solution”.
Four bleak visions of our region in the year 2020. And one of hope — given the right leaders and policies. This is the thrust of the major scenario exercise by the Institute for Global Dialogue, funded by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the aid arm of Germany’s Social Democratic Party.
Anglogold and five mining unions have clinched a unique deal that paves the way for company-funded anti-retroviral treatment for HIV-infected miners for the first time. Unofficial estimates put levels of HIV infection in the mining industry at between 25% and 30%.
Senior communist Jeremy Cronin — accused this week of lying about the African National Congress in a controversial interview — was in fact defending the ruling alliance and disputing the far-left view that South Africa is inexorably sliding towards tragedy.
South Africa’s splintered opposition is set for further fragmentation, with the Democratic Alliance facing wholesale bloodletting at municipal level. At the same time the African National Congress is largely insulated from the impact of defections because of the size of its municipal majorities.
With each passing day that Jurgen Harksen gives evidence in a packed chamber of the Western Cape provincial administration building it becomes clearer that the Democratic Alliance is in dreadful trouble. The weight of evidence is overwhelming.
Cape Town mayor produces hard evidence that controversial German billionaire did not pay his rent.
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/ 22 February 2002
This is the fourth consecutive period in which the M&G has shown a year-on-year percentage increase in excess of 10%.
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/ 22 February 2002
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang had the approval of the ANC’s top leadership in repudiating Gauteng’s announcement of a rollout of drugs.