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The appointment of the Cabinet and provincial premiers is the prerogative of President Thabo Mbeki — and one which he has so far determinedly exercised on his own. In part, Mbeki most probably does it to avoid the manoeuvring and the creation of cabals that would almost be sure to follow if African National Congress officials felt they could campaign their way into Cabinet.
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/ 3 December 2003
In South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, a train wound its way through the undulating hills. On board, six young people with HIV or Aids, along with celebrities from local soap operas, television and radio were doing their bit to raise Aids awareness.
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/ 7 November 2003
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s five-nation tour, which began in the island nations of Sao Tome and Principe, will end in South Africa this week. Lula will stay for just a day in South Africa, ending a week-long African tour that has taken him predominantly to Lusophone nations including Angola, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe.
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/ 30 October 2003
The T-shirt, the poster, the billboard. Traditionally the weapons of protest and of solidarity are remarkable for their ability to cross oceans with similar messages, as displayed in an exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
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/ 26 October 2003
It is almost 10 years since apartheid ended and the government has published its draft review of its first decade in power to hold up a mirror to its own performance. It is good in parts, patchy in others: for example, there are more poor households than in 1994 when the African National Congress was voted in.
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/ 20 October 2003
The government has political power, but not enough influence on the mechanisms of the state to turn them into real tools of social and economic development. This is a crucial finding of the government’s 10-year review of the first decade of freedom released on Thursday.
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/ 14 October 2003
While the South African government pins responsibility for its decision to ban soldiers who are HIV-positive from active duty on United Nations regulations, activists plan to fight the state in court. Lawyers say that government’s plan is unconstitutional because it violates the anti-discrimination clause in the constitution.
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/ 23 September 2003
An Aids wave is washing over Southern and East Africa, devastating families and communities, says a UNAids report released at the 13th international conference on Aids in Africa. ”HIV is the first wave of the epidemic, entering silently and virtually unnoticed,” says the report.
Anti-HIV gel still a distant goal
A condom project touted this week as one of the most ”innovative” to stem from the offset programme linked to South Africa’s multibillion-rand arms deal does not yet exist and has yet to create a single job.
The South African Statistics Council, an independent body that oversees Statistics South Africa, plans to subject the 2006 census to a thorough review following concerns about certain aspects of the 2001 census.