The man who presided over South Africa’s biggest housing scandal eight years ago is back — as special adviser to Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu. Saths Moodley resigned as executive chair of the Mpumalanga Housing Board in May 1997 as the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> exposed what became known as the Motheo scandal.
"Judge Sisi Khampepe has her work cut out. Any process of deciding on the future institutional location of the Scorpions is going to be a difficult one. By most accounts she is well-suited to the task and all the complexities, both legal and political, which it brings," writes Richard Calland.
Seventy percent of the world’s poor were women, South Africa’s Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told the Pan-African centre for gender peace and development conference in Senegal. Dlamini-Zuma said that women were being generally marginalised in every human activity.
South Africa’s hard won reputation as champion of human rights is being undermined by government’s voting record in the United Nations. The DA says the country repeatedly chooses to align itself with non-democratic regimes by voting not to take action on highly abusive states or by abstaining.
The Zimbabwe government, keen to stem the flight of professionals from the economically-ravaged country, will force some graduates to work in government service. Many professionals will be bonded to government institutions after they graduate in a bid to stop them leaving for better-paid jobs outside Zimbabwe
Government appears to have done nothing to respond to the threats facing South Africa’s textile sector, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said in a statement on Sunday to mark Worker’s Day. Leon said government appeared to lack the political will to help this industry to adjust to the harsh new realities of international trade.
International efforts to persuade North Korea to abandon its suspected nuclear weapons programme were in danger of unravelling yesterday amid reports that it has launched a short-range conventional missile into the Sea of Japan.
World number three Ernie Els led from start to finish to win the rain-affected ,5-million BMW Asian Open Monday by a massive 13 shots and record his third victory of the year. The 35-year-old South African, who pockets the winner’s cheque of 000, finished at 26 under par for the tournament.
South African nurses have been showing up at work in pyjamas in recent weeks to press demands for uniform allowances — the latest sign of malaise in the health care system wracked by an exodus of medical staff. The pyjama protest comes amid unease in the health care profession as it grapples with a ”brain drain”.
Union leaders urged Zimbabweans to take action to stave off famine and collapse, warning that they may not make it to next year’s May Day due to worsening food shortages. Zimbabwe has over the past two weeks faced crippling shortages of fuel and power and water outages, while basic foodstuffs such as maize grain are in short supply.