Constitutional Court judges asked on Thursday why the government was not proactively rewriting the law on same-sex partnerships? Judge Kate O’Regan said the court had on ”numerous occasions” called on the state to rewrite the law. ”It needs to be dealt with and it needs to be dealt with urgently,” she said.
There is no final agreement yet on a Legal Services Charter but finalising it is urgent, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development said on Friday. While there is broad agreement on the need for transformation of ownership of traditionally white firms, there is no agreement on black economic empowerment quotas.
Veterans of the 1956 women’s march returned to Pretoria on Women’s Day on Wednesday to march on the Union Buildings as they did 50 years ago. The benefits of freedom must reach everyone, women told President Thabo Mbeki at the Union Buildings. ”This constitutes a failure when we say the fruits of our liberation have not reached our women,” Mbeki agreed.
Civil servants who fraudulently claimed social grants include police officers, National Prosecuting Authority employees and a staffer in the president’s office. The list of 1 792 civil servants who are required to pay back fraudulently obtained grants was released by the Department of Social Development.
Professional and volunteer rescue services worked together to rescue dozens of people across flooded Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage on Thursday. At least two people died, scores were evacuated and dozens rescued, said exhausted emergency workers. Emergency services were swamped with calls for help.
Nelson Mandela and former United States president Bill Clinton teamed up on Thursday to raise funds for African children with heart problems.
Making cities like Johannesburg safer also involves helping the people who live there feel safer, urban experts said on Thursday. ”Fear is such a powerful element associated with cities,” said Professor Sophie Body-Gendrot, of the Centre for Urban Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
Defence Minister Joe Modise had clearly not been briefed about the Directorate of Covert Collection when he moved to interdict this paper last week.
Mandela’s birthplace — It all began in the little village of Qunu in the Transkei…