The multimillion-rand Arrive Alive campaign has failed to reduce the carnage on South Africa’s roads and analysts say citizens will have to play a far larger role in cutting fatalities. Road fatalities rose 25% in December compared with December 2001.

Police are confident they have crippled the right-wing insurrection with the arrest this week of five of the men wanted for the Soweto bombings. Nine men were arrested this week in connection with the right-wing violence that has rocked South Africa in the past two months.

Affordable drugs: Plans for a two-tier system for drug pricing, which will supply cheap medicines to poor countries though they will remain far more expensive for the rich, will be launched this week by the United Kingdom’s International Development Secretary, Clare Short.

The minibus taxi industry has negotiated substantial compromises in the government’s programme to replace its ageing fleet and enforce at least minimal control over the unruly business.

They grew up in a time of political turmoil, but were too young to be participants. They spoke their first words in Afrikaans, while most of their countrymen were demanding that Afrikaans be scrapped in schools. They are the new generation of young Afrikaners.

Union activists have forced three doctors to resign from Middelburg hospital in Mpumalanga. Mpumalanga’s Department of Health says it is investigating clashes between the doctors and members of Nehawu at the hospital and is considering taking action against the union.

Taxi operators are driving old, unsafe vehicles because of the government’s plans to recapitalise the industry, the South African National Taxi Council said this week. The organisation said it was worried about the safety of taxi commuters and drivers.

Investigating a murder scene is never pleasant. Investigators must handle bodies filled with maggots & beetles, but they often lead to convictions.

Three years after President Thabo Mbeki handed over 65 000ha in the Kalahari to the Khomani San, the community risks losing part of its recently reclaimed heritage because of bad debt. Executive members of the property association’s management committee accumulated up to R150 000 in debts.