A high court judgement on Friday clearing the way for the Southern Spears to play in next year’s Super 14 competition is a ”triumph for South African rugby”, the franchise’s MD, Tony McKeever, said. ”The victory for the Spears … is a defeat for SA Rugby, but it’s also a triumph for South African rugby,” McKeever said.
Legal representation and a mooted separation of trials both need to be finalised before Parliament’s so-called ”Travelgate” saga can proceed to trial, the Cape High Court heard on Monday. Cape Judge President John Hlophe acceded to a defence proposal to postpone the matter to October 17, granting the 28 accused an ephemeral reprieve.
South Africa’s food-fortification programme is generating interest throughout the continent, but it is too early to determine the effect on the health of South Africans, a World Health Organisation affiliate said recently. In 2003 South Africa was one of four countries — the others are China, Morocco and Vietnam — that received a fortification grant from Gain, with South Africa’s largesse valued at ,8-million.
Technology can be used to empower individuals, promote economic growth and reduce inequality, former United States president Bill Clinton told a conference in Cape Town on Tuesday. He was speaking on the final day of deliberations at the Government Leaders Forum-Africa conference.
It is an awe-inspiring sight, watching a nine-tonne attack helicopter perform a loop and barrel rolls, the aeronautical equivalent of Luciano Pavarotti performing a perfect pike on the diving board. But this is exactly what Denel Aviation’s CSH-2 Rooivalk attack helicopter can do, although it is not part of its operational flying capabilities.
”Our heritage is unique and precious and it cannot be renewed,” reads part of the preamble to South Africa’s heritage legislation, yet many public bodies don’t know what resources are under their custodianship. The South African Heritage Resources Agency now plans a national audit of state-owned heritage resources to help manage those collections.
A meeting called by NGOs to discuss a controversial City of Cape Town beggar by-law was disrupted on Wednesday when a city councillor was asked to leave. The by-law outlaws a number of alleged offences, such as intentionally touching or causing physical contact with another person.
The challenging reality of access young girls have to termination-of-pregnancy services is acknowledged in a report by the national Department of Health, detailing the first seven years of abortion legislation in South Africa. The report focuses on the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, implemented in February 1997 and amended in 2004.
Hospitalised former president FW de Klerk is recovering well, his family said on Friday. ”He’s very relaxed at the moment and everyone is very positive, and it seems as if we’re over the worst and now it’s just the road ahead,” De Klerk’s eldest son, Jan, told the South African Press Association.
The Western Cape treasury is disputing an amount apparently owed to the city of Cape Town, which by noon on Thursday had cut off the water and electricity supply to the provincial department of local government and housing. ”There was agreement in the last month between senior officials from the province and city,” Lynn Brown, provincial minister for finance, said on Thursday.