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Minister lays bricks for women’s housing project

Wearing grey gloves, Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu spent time on Monday morning laying bricks for 15 houses as part of Women’s Build 2005. ”I’m happy and proud of the…

SAA strike to disrupt Johannesburg airport

Flights at Johannesburg International airport will be disrupted when aviation members of the United Association of South Africa (Uasa) embark on industrial action from Wednesday…

More deaths reported at ‘Klebsiella hospital’

About 40 babies died at the Mahatma Gandhi Hospital in Durban during two months in 2003 of ”various neonatal ICU infections,” the director of the non-profit organisation Voice…

Rand Water stops Jo’burg flood

Rand Water has managed to stop the water flow that flooded parts of Meredale in Johannesburg after a pipe burst early on Tuesday. Assessors are examining the extent of the…

ANC ‘redeploys’ Emfuleni mayor

Emfuleni local municipality mayor Johnny Thabane and two other senior officials will be replaced by a ”political collective”, the African National Congress in Gauteng said on…

Former Beaufort West mayor arrested

Beaufort West municipal manager Truman Prince was released on R200 bail on Thursday night after being arrested at the local police station following ”outrageous behaviour”.…

Mandela, Machel nominated for children’s rights award

Former president Nelson Mandela and his Mozambican-born wife, Graca Machel, are among the nominees for the 2005 World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child. The…

ANC Youth League: Zuma for president

The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) thinks Deputy President Jacob Zuma should be the next president of the country, the organisation said on Monday. ANCYL…

Cave divers’ bodies found at Boesmansgat

The bodies of Australian diver Dave Shaw and South African Deon Dreyer were recovered from the world’s third-deepest freshwater cave, Boesmansgat, in the Northern Cape on…

Jo’burg residents to hear verdicts on boom gates

Johannesburg residents who have applied for boom-gate access control in their streets will hear from Thursday if their applications were approved or not, mayor Amos Masondo told…

‘No one took Wanderers fire seriously at first’

Most of the historic Wanderers cricket clubhouse in Johannesburg was destroyed by fire on Wednesday night. By 9.30pm flames were still raging in one corner of the building —…

‘If there is no money, there will be no water’

Citizens of Chiawelo in Soweto protested on Wednesday against the installation of prepaid water meters, the Anti-Privatisation Forum said. However, Jameel Chand, spokesperson for…

Healthcare Funders settle price fixing dispute

Medical aid schemes have reached a settlement with the Competition Commission over price fixing, under which they will pay a R500 000 ”administrative penalty”. The Board of…

Road-rage accused appears in court

A 34-year-old man appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday in connection with the killing of three people during a road-rage incident at the weekend,…

Five human shields from SA to return home

Five South African ”human shields” may ”reluctantly” return to South Africa from Iraq due to family pressures and the ”extreme realities of a war situation”, the Iraq Action…

‘Zimbabwe is like communist China’

Zimbabwean Archbishop Pius Ncube said the situation in his country was worsening each day and had become ”very much like communist China with everything totally controlled by the…

Wide support for SA’s stop the war campaign

Various religious bodies, political parties and non-governmental organisations met under the ”Stop The War Campaign” in Johannesburg on Tuesday morning to condemn the impending…

Ex-CCB man held on R11m gem heist charge

Former Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) member Calla Botha was among four men arrested on Tuesday in connection with an R11-million Sandton diamond heist.

McCaps leaves Unisa under a cloud

The council of the University of South Africa has accepted the resignation of its chairman, McCaps Motimele, and said Unisa would not pay for the settlement of a sexual…

Unemployment still a problem on Workers Day

THE Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) and its alliance partners announced that unemployment remained the most difficult challenge for government, as more workers lost their…