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/ 30 November 2005
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Stop fence-sitting and speak out about HIV, the Inkatha Freedom Party told President Thabo Mbeki on the eve of World Aids Day. ”Come off the fence … admit the high-profile people who are dying of HIV and become a role model for openness,” IFP health spokesperson Ruth Rabinowitz said on Wednesday.
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/ 29 November 2005
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The police investigation into rape allegations against Jacob Zuma is incomplete, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Mike Hulley said the former deputy president, out of respect for due process, will reserve further comment on the matter until the police have completed their probe.
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/ 28 November 2005
Health officials in the Eastern Cape are still searching for 19 boys believed to be at an illegal initiation school in the bush near Flagstaff, said a spokesperson for the provincial department of health on Monday. Also, one boy died after falling ill at another circumcision school in the area.
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/ 27 November 2005
The government is looking for skilled white South Africans at home and abroad to help implement its accelerated growth plan, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday. Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told the newspaper that the government has ”messed up” communicating its affirmative-action policy.
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/ 24 November 2005
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has received a docket from the police on rape allegations against former deputy president Jacob Zuma. The authority now has to decide whether to prosecute. NPA spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said: ”We intend finalising this matter as soon as possible.”
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/ 24 November 2005
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Police are conducting tests on former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s blood to compare it with the DNA of semen found on the underwear of his alleged rape victim, Beeld newspaper reported on Thursday. It said the forensic test results will soon be handed to senior police officials.
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/ 18 November 2005
Scientists have blasted a plan to cull thousands of elephants in the Kruger National Park, instead recommending contraception to reduce numbers. "This cull is abhorrent and needs to be stopped," Southern African Association for the Advancement of Science president Ian Raper said in Johannesburg on Friday.
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/ 10 November 2005
The latest wave of train torchings has cost Metrorail an estimated R200-million, leaving the company with no more trains to run between Gauteng’s Midway and Vereeniging stations, spokesperson Thandi Mlangeni said on Thursday. Commuters upset over train delays set 28 coaches alight on Wednesday evening.
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/ 2 November 2005
”The funeral industry is not as clean as they pretend to be,” says Johan Rousseau, a founding member of the United Funeral Association of South Africa (Ufasa). On Wednesday, the South African Council of Churches and Ufasa called on the government to regulate the industry at the Funeral Indaba towards Regulation in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
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/ 30 October 2005
Huberte Rupert, wife of industrialist Anton Rupert, died in Stellenbosch on Friday night, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported. Rupert died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 86 following a long illness, the broadcaster quoted her son, Johann, as saying.