Southern African leaders gather for a summit on Thursday in Lesotho to discuss ways of streamlining trade to boost development in the poverty-sticken 14-nation regional bloc. The two-day talks will look at economic goals set for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Discussions will also touch on subjects such as the Aids pandemic.
The Eastern Cape is fast-tracking housing for those left homeless by recent floods, said the provincial department of housing and local government on Wednesday. Up to 20Â 000 families were either displaced or partially affected by the recent floods, storms and snowfall disasters that struck certain parts of the province.
South African Aids activists have slammed the International Aids Conference for being a show of celebrities and philanthropists, instead of people living with HIV/Aids who could raise the real issues they face. Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) members protested at the South African stand at the conference.
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has condemned the vandalising of the South African exhibit at the International Aids Conference in Toronto, Canada. A group of Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) activists occupied the stall, with some lying on the ground to symbolise the dead.
On a day when their Fifa ranking plummeted to a disturbing 76th in the world, Bafana Bafana hardly enhanced a diminishing reputation on Wednesday night with a scrappy, scrambled 1-0 victory over 137th-ranked Namibia at the Sam Nujoma Stadium on the outskirts of Windhoek.
Counterfeit money has come into circulation in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, less than a week before the complete changeover to a new currency introduced by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono last week. The counterfeiters appear to be targeting street vendors and other unsuspecting traders.
South Africans are heading to the point where the country will be as wealthy as it was in 1981 — a 25-year gap of economic decline and claw-back — with a per capita income per head of about R24Â 000 a year, futures trend analyst JP Landman told the Cape Town Press Club on Wednesday.
South Africa’s National Assembly has given the nod to an ad hoc committee recommendation that Terrence Mncedisi Nombembe, the current Deputy Auditor General, be approved as the new auditor general. The current Auditor General, Shauket Fakie, retires at the end of November.
A call has been made for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to involve civil society in its decision-making process — in deed, as well as in word. This came ahead of the annual SADC summit for heads of state and government that gets under way on Thursday in Lesotho’s capital, Maseru.
With new twists to the ongoing saga, it appears that the new arts minister has inherited a hot potato in the shape of the National Arts Council. Kim Gurney investigates.