The United States government has committed R19-million to fund a South African satellite health channel teaching about the HIV/Aids pandemic, a US development agency has announced. The channel is to be launched late this year and it is hoped the channel will broadcast to 4 000 public health institutions around the country.
South African Minister of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe has announced that Umthunzi Telecoms Consortium is the preferred bidder on the MTN tender that was placed on September 19 last year. The government expects the transaction to be about R2,5-billion.
South African new vehicle sales in March 2004 registered the highest year-on-year (y/y) increase at 28,5% since September 1995, when it was 87,9% y/y after strikes in the third quarter of 1994. Figures released by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa on Friday show a massive rise to 38 891 units.
Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar and Pemba islands will have their own flag before the end of the year, officials said on Thursday, for the first time since 1964. The government will soon invite artists to propose the format of the flag and colours before its final version is approved.
The case of controversial Durban businessman Schabir Shaik was postponed in the city’s magistrate’s court on Friday to January 17 next year. Friday’s case relates to Shaik allegedly being in possession of minutes of a Cabinet meeting on the multibillion-rand arms deal.
If one gives in to the uncanny impression that the men in Zwelethu Mthethwa’s new series of photographs are waiting for something or someone, one sets in motion a whole train of problems, writes Bronwyn Law-Viljoen.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was firmer in noon trade on Friday, buoyed by positive sentiment and strong performances by heavyweight dual-listed stocks offshore. However, as has been the case all week, volumes were fairly light with just more than R700-billion-worth of shares having changed hands.
More resources will be released to address a R10-billion backlog to improve the public health-care infrastructure, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Thursday. She was speaking at the opening of the Colesberg hospital in the Northern Cape.
When we think of witchcraft violence — the persecution or killing of people who are allegedly witches — we might think only of the European Middle Ages or 17th-century Puritan America. Yet we live in a world and society where beliefs in witchcraft are still prevalent. Anthony Egan reviews a new book that sheds much light on the practice at home.
"The aim of <i>Group Portrait: South African Family Stories</i> was to make an exhibition about South Africa that Dutch people would understand. They would appreciate and become affected by South African society on a broad scale." Dutch curator Paul Faber talks about the process of combining South African family histories into a multimedia narrative.