Gauteng province’s roll-out of antiretroviral drugs for HIV/Aids patients will begin on April 1, health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa said on Monday. The province hoped to treat about 100 new cases a week, starting in five hospitals, and expanding to 23 institutions by this time next year.
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The DA on Monday called on Deputy President Jacob Zuma to retract and apologise for ”offensive” religious remarks he made while on the campaign trail. The DA said Zuma told a crowd of people ”the ANC will rule South Africa until Jesus comes back”.
The presidency has denied to the Mail & Guardian Online that the president had broken the Constitution, saying he acted according to the ”letter and spirit” of the law. This follows allegations by the DA that the president may have violated the Constitution when he sent a defence force aircraft to the Caribbean without informing Parliament.
The Department of Justice spent over R27-million when it moved into its new offices in Pretoria in February this year, according to Justice Minister Penuell Maduna. In a written reply to a question tabled in Parliament, Maduna said the total cost of the move, which included refurbishing the premises, was R27 733 053.
The mother of one of the men slain in the Sizzlers massacre told the Cape High Court on Monday she would never forgive her son’s two murderers. ”It is awful to think that his life was lost in such a violent crime and [in such a] barbaric manner… I will never forgive,” said Fay Berghaus, mother of Gregory Berghaus.
Black economic empowerment companies (BEE) have improved their share of spending by Old Mutual Properties on outsourced services for buildings in the company’s portfolios to 56% in 2004, according to Richard Murphy, head of the facilities management division.
When the new Pan-African Parliament is inaugurated in Ethiopia next week, it will confront a host of challenging issues — not least the role of mercenaries in Africa. ”Mercenaries are now topical. They are in the news,” Frene Ginwala, the Speaker of South Africa’s National Assembly, told journalists in Johannesburg on March 12.
At least 74 people were killed when cyclone Gafilo ripped across northern Madagascar eight days ago, rescue officials said on Monday. The storm also left about 200 000 homeless and 169 people were still listed as missing, including 100 of the passengers and crew of a ferry from the nearby Comoro Islands that sank during the storm.
EU competition watchdogs met on Monday with officials from EU states seeking their accord to slap sanctions on software giant Microsoft for abusing its dominant market position. A source close to the talks said that EU competition commissioner Mario Monti ”should get the support” of member states, who rarely overturn a decision by the European Commission.
Terror warnings from the United States and other countries in the past ten months have left nearly 14 000 Kenyan hotel workers unemployed, the Nairobi daily East African Standard reported on Monday. In most hotels on the coast and in national parks, the occupation rate has dropped 65%.