A new draft fishing policy has failed to consider the plight of thousands of subsistence fishermen, a Western Cape body working with the poor said on Wednesday. ”I think it is a pie in the sky … It’s a myth that small scale fishermen will be given greater access rights,” said Naseedh Jaffer, director of the Masifundise organisation.
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/ 28 February 2005
The National Party withdrew from the government of national unity (GNU) when the African National Congress refused to establish a consultative council to deal with minority concerns. This is according to former president FW de Klerk, who on Monday addressed the Cape Town Press Club on the role of minorities in post-1994 South Africa.
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/ 16 February 2005
South Africa faces a looming health crisis as increased wealth, poor eating habits and sedentary behaviour point to an ”epidemic” of heart disease, especially among the black population. ”We are sitting on a time bomb,” said professor Anthony MBewu, interim president of the Medical Research Council.
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/ 16 February 2005
A Cape High Court judge on Tuesday dismissed an urgent application by former Beaufort West mayor Truman Prince seeking to prevent the broadcast of a television programme allegedly implicating him in child prostitution. The programme deals with prostitution in rural areas and specifically young women who ply their trade to truck drivers.
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/ 29 January 2005
Former anti-apartheid activist Allan Boesak was welcomed back into the fold in Bishopscourt on Friday evening by the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Njongokulu Ndungane. Earlier in the month Boesak received a presidential pardon from Thabo Mbeki, expunging his criminal record of a fraud conviction.
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/ 28 January 2005
The burgeoning cheese industry in South Africa, which has been around for more than 100 years, is set to benefit when the first plug of formerly disadvantaged cheesemakers goes to France to learn more about the trade. The objective is to offer cheesemakers the opportunity to gain new skills and expertise by doing an intensive, three-week course.
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/ 27 January 2005
The war of words between former Western Cape Independent Democrats leader Lennit Max and the ID’s top brass refused to settle on Thursday, with Max refuting earlier claims by party leader Patricia de Lille that he had ”unconditionally” withdrawn high court litigation.
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/ 20 January 2005
As infighting continued to plague the Independent Democrats, a renewed call for a postponement of the party’s Western Cape congress was made on Wednesday. Senior office bearers, including chairpersons of nine ID branches in Cape Town’s metropolis, have signed a statement calling for the postponement due to the ”chaotic planning and absence of a fair process”.
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/ 9 December 2004
In a ceremony redolent with irony, former struggle icon Abram Fischer received a posthumous honorary doctorate from the University of Stellenbosch in a packed DF Malan hall on Thursday. The controversial award to Fischer, an Afrikaner communist, was a culmination of events that had divided the university.
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/ 18 November 2004
South Africa is at the crest of a wave of international studies to test the safety and efficacy of a seaweed-based microbicide, which once inserted into a woman’s vagina could help prevent the spread of Aids. The study is particularly important in societies where women have difficulty persuading partners to use condoms. If proven to be efficacious, plans will be made to mass-produce and market the product.