Drug laws considered outdated are being reviewed in order to improve the state’s response to drug and substance abuse, Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya said on Monday. The Prevention of and Treatment of Substance Abuse Bill will replace the Prevention and Treatment of Drug Dependency Act of 1992.
Hurricane Dean skirted the Cayman Islands on Monday and raced toward Mexico’s resort-dotted Caribbean coast, where tens of thousands of tourists fled what could become a mammoth category-five storm. The airport at Mexico’s biggest resort, Cancun, was packed with departing tourists on Monday.
South Africa is an over-advantaged partner in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Monday. He was speaking in Sandton at a conference of business leaders from the SADC region, where a survey was also released on obstacles when doing business in the region.
The African National Congress’s national working committee has expressed "deep concern and outrage" at the latest reports in the <i>Sunday Times</i> newspaper on Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, calling them "nothing more than character assassination".
The Competition Tribunal, which blocked Telkom’s plans to buy IT group Business Connexion (BCX) in June, found that the two companies were already implementing a merger without its approval, it said on Monday. The tribunal said the deal would have resulted in Telkom thwarting competition in the managed network service sector.
The country’s biggest microlender, African Bank Investments Limited (Abil), disclosed on Monday that it had submitted a letter to the board of directors of furniture group Ellerines expressing an interest to acquire the company. It said that the Ellerines board was supportive of the strategic rationale.
Previously known as Silver Stars, Platinum Stars officially announced their new identity at a press conference at the Sandton Convention Centre on Monday. The management of the team, led by Larry Brookstone, sold 51% of the club to Royal Bafokeng Sports Holdings and this prompted a name change for the Stars.
Justice was not served during the 2005 murder trial of Mark Scott-Crossley, who is serving a life sentence for killing a farmworker he threw to lions, the Supreme Court of Appeal heard on Monday. Scott-Crossley’s counsel submitted that the court had entered the ”arena of guiding the state when examining witnesses in chief” during the trial.
The United States hopes to increase the money it spends to tackle HIV and Aids in South Africa, US Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt said on Monday. He met Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya at the Union Buildings in Pretoria as part of an official visit to South Africa.
Almost two years after arriving in Cape Town, nine containers of clothes donated by Taiwan are finally ready to be given to the needy, mayor Helen Zille said on Monday. The containers of new clothes arrived in Cape Town harbour in November 2005 and were held up by unfinished paperwork and customs processes.