Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi corrected the new Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, Buyelwa Patience Sonjica, when she said some targets would be met. Taking the microphone from her, he said: "No, not some targets will be met. All targets will be met." This is the kind of confidence displayed by Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu.
Mpumalanga’s health department, once viewed as corrupt and inept, is getting back to business. When Hussein Verachia was appointed head of the department last year he inherited what he refers to as a "dysfunctional department". These are polite words to describe the situation he found.
A South African company has come up with what appears to be a novel and innovative solution to combat the increasing scourge of viruses that have been bringing many companies to their knees. Shaya Technologies, which describes itself as an information and communications technology and black economic empowerment company, thinks its solution is so innovative that it has even lodged a patent on it.
Justine Henin-Hardenne, a shell of the player she has been for the past 12 months, relinquished her French Open crown in her match against Italy’s Tathiana Garbin on Wednesday and then turned her mind to Wimbledon, the one grand slam title she has yet to win.
If selecting a team is all about chemistry then successive Springbok coaches have discovered to their cost that certain volatile components when put together display a fine tendency to explode. So it should come as no surprise that Jake White’s Bloemfontein training camp has hardly been an unqualified success.
Kaizer Chiefs fans’ celebrations have been put on hold for a week. What stands between the Glamour Boys and ending a 12-year league title drought is the small matter of three points. If Chiefs can overcome Moroka Swallows on Saturday, rivals Ajax Cape Town and Wits University will be left with only second place to fight over.
A highly emotive application by the 70 South Africans held as suspected mercenaries in Harare since March 7 was countered this week by a cold-eyed defence of the South African government. For the applicants, advocate Francois Joubert began proceedings by showing a CBS documentary on the booming oil economy of Equatorial Guinea and that small country’s parlous human rights record.
The government’s paranoid, hysterical and nit-picking response to the recent United Nations Development Programme South Africa Human Development Report 2003 has shown that it does not have a single coherent proposal on what should be done to significantly increase the country’s miserable rate of economic growth, writes Duma Gqubule.
Sudan has edged closer to a final peace deal after the government and rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army signed three protocols on Wednesday night that are crucial to ending Africa’s longest-running civil war. Over two million people have been killed and four million displaced by the war waged by the Islamic government in the north and black Christians and animists in the south.
Jose Mourinho is one cool customer, a man who does things his way. And in Wednesday night’s battle of Europe’s most-wanted young football managers he emerged the decisive winner over Didier Deschamps. If coaches were eligible for the man of the match award, it would have been his for the taking.