The Audit Burea of Circulations says it has decided to add back issues to circulation figures because they are still sold or distributed within the reporting period.
The African National Congress (ANC) has retained a key seat in a municipal by-election in the Theewaterskloof municipal area while it lost a seat to an independent in the Western Cape’s Saldanha Bay. The independent candidate was backed by the Independent Democrats and Democratic Alliance.
Zimbabwe’s government is adding more bricks to the wall it has built between itself and the rest of the world. Starting next month, university students who have received government assistance — which is most of them — will no longer be able to leave the country legally to seek employment elsewhere.
Aborigine Jackie Huggins remembers when she was regarded as part of Australia’s native wildlife. As a young girl, Huggins was not counted as part of the Australian population. Back then Aborigines existed only under the country’s flora and fauna laws. On Sunday, Aborigines will celebrate the 40th anniversary of a 1967 vote that extended Australian citizenship to Aborigines.
South African-born author Christopher Hope, now resident in France, may find himself embroiled in a literary scandal over allegations that his novel My Mother’s Lovers contains characters and situations that are startlingly similar to those in Liz McGregor’s biography Khabzela: The Life and Times of a South African.
Israel is destroying any notion of a state of Palestine and is imprisoning an entire nation. That is clear from the latest attacks on Gaza. The attacks, reported on Britain’s Channel 4 News, were ”targeting key militants of Hamas” and the ”Hamas infrastructure”. The BBC described a ”clash” between the same militants and Israeli F-16 aircraft.
The sheer volume of sexual offences committed in South Africa poses one of the great challenges to the criminal justice system. Most recently, the Constitutional Court was confronted with the validity of the common-law definition of rape to the extent that it excluded anal penetration and was gender-specific.
South African newspaper editors came home from Moscow last year all fired up to take their online editions more seriously. They had been delegates to the World Newspaper Congress and become enthused by colleagues from developed countries who could talk about little else.
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Public-sector unions are expected to meet the state in the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council next week in a last-ditch attempt to avert a strike. Bargaining council general secretary Shamira Huluman said the employer had sent a request for a meeting on May 28 and 29. Unions had been given until Thursday to say if they would attend, she said.