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By the early 21st century, Pieter Willem (PW) Botha’s name had become a byword for unaccountable government and the autocratic exercise of power. Botha, who died on Tuesday night…
Africa is facing the prospect of a sharp increase in new and fatal strains of tuberculosis (TB) as drug-resistant forms of the disease find those living with HIV easy victims,…
A South African company on Tuesday unveiled plans for the continent’s first billion-dollar factory to make bio-ethanol from maize, as Africa races to find alternative energy…
Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana has referred allegations of corruption at a sectoral education and training authority (Seta), involving at least R13,7-million, to the…
The South African Council of Churches (SACC) and United States civil rights leader Jesse Jackson on Wednesday resolved to develop a strategic partnership. Jackson and SACC…
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is to investigate the link, if any, between security-sector employers and African National Congress leaders. Cosatu general…
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) voiced fears on Thursday that South Africa and the African National Congress are drifting towards a dictatorship.…
The South African Air Force on Wednesday took delivery of its first two Hawk Mark 120 lead-in fighter trainers. The air force will receive 10 of the aircraft from Denel and BAE…
Johannesburg International airport is to spend R3,4-billion upgrading facilities and security over the next four years — and at least another R8-billion in the next decade. The…
The Congress of South African Trade Unions-led strike on Thursday was a powerful statement by workers, the South African Communist Party said on Sunday. Party secretary general…
The South African Communist Party (SACP) would not be an absentee participant in the election of a new African National Congress president, the organisation’s deputy general…
The security industry is preparing for next week’s strike by guards, a company said on Thursday. Chubb Security South Africa, one of the country’s larger security companies, said…
President Thabo Mbeki has opened a new museum complex at the University of the Witwatersrand to showcase the origin of mankind and bushman rock art to the public. Mbeki said the…
The SA Army has unveiled a vision for the next 15 years that will require major changes in the way it thinks and fights. The chief of the army, Lieutenant-General Solly Shoke,…
Africa’s democratic leaders are upbeat about the progress and prospects of the continent. This emerged from the African Leaders’ State of Africa Report 2005, released by former…
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has urged the public not to vote for local government election candidates who were inactive in the fight against HIV/Aids. ”If candidates do…
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) on Monday again declared its loyalty to the party’s beleaguered deputy president, Jacob Zuma, and said it opposes ”the creation…
The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has apologised for unintentionally dumping toxic chrome into the Crocodile River near Brits earlier this month. ”The IDC commits…
South Africa has a new ”super trade-union federation”, but the country will have to wait until July to know what it will be called. The Congress of South African Trade Unions…
Last week’s discovery of mass graves in Namibia proves once again that truth often is the first casualty of war. In the conflict between the South African Defence Force and the…
