The Regional Land Claims Commission in Limpopo has been accused of accepting land claims at least five years after the December 1998 deadline. And the local farmers’ association says a farmer’s wife suffered a stroke on being told on May 29 that such a claim had been lodged to her family’s land.

The Western Cape department of health has refused to reinstate the Khayelitsha healthcare workers who were dismissed on June 11 during the public strike, despite high court Judge Siraj Desai’s ruling that healthcare facilities be restored to a functional state. If an agreement is reached with National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union the department will be obliged to reinstate the workers.

The Mail & Guardian has identified a notorious international fugitive as part of Glenn Agliotti’s former circle of intimates — adding a new twist to the probe of Agliotti’s relationship with police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. Antonio Lamas, as he was then known, joined the group around Agliotti in the late 1990s.

An urgent revamp and strengthening of the powers of the South African Geographical Names Council and its provincial committees may be the tonic for divisive municipal street renaming processes. In Durban, the process has been marred by violent protest, political bickering and a DA legal challenge to the eThekwini municipality.

Predictions that the African National Congress (ANC) would shift its policies leftwards were confirmed by the outcomes of the commissions at the ANC policy conference on strategy and tactics this week. The ANC will formally adopt the interventionist strategies that the state has been taking recently.

A once infamous canned-lion breeding farm has been revamped to serve as a sanctuary for predators bred in captivity. Camorhi Game Lodge, at one time a venue of choice for the canned-lion hunting industry, has been renamed Lionsrock and will be the new home of hundreds of lions scheduled to be put down.