The Democratic Alliance is facing an exodus of black members, who accuse the party of racism in its ranks. This week the DA caucus in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, suspended two of its leaders in Thembisa, accusing them of encouraging members to desert the party and join the opposition.
Despite achieving the best matric results in the country for three years in a row, the Northern Cape is not benefiting from the knowledge of school-leavers in the province. "We are suffering from a massive brain drain," a worried Tina Joemat-Pettersson, provincial minister of education in the Northern Cape, told the <i>M&G</i>. "But we believe that we can turn it around."
Qummergal grimaced as she bared her face to a camera for the first time. But when she saw her portrait, she giggled with delight. ”I can’t believe it’s me,” she said. ”Look at me. It’s wonderful!” Qummergal was registering to vote in Afghanistan’s first elections since the advent of war 25 years ago.
South African president Thabo Mbeki on Thursday expressed shock and dismay at the three explosions on commuter trains in Spain that left at least 198 people dead and hundreds injured.
Another bomb was found following Thursday’s bombings of four Madrid trains that killed 192 people, radio reports said on Friday. The undetonated bomb was found under a pile of luggage which had been deposited after the terrorist attacks in a police station in the southeast of Madrid.
The California Supreme Court on Thursday night ordered officials in San Francisco to immediately stop granting same-sex marriage licences, delivering a blow to gay rights advocates in the United States. The court did not rule on whether gay marriage was legal and said it expected to hear further proceedings on the issue in May or June.
In what could be a landmark judgement for South African women, the appeal of Anita Ferreira, the woman who received a life sentence four years ago for killing her abusive common-law husband, will be heard in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein this Friday, March 12.
The battle against HIV/Aids suffered a severe blow this week with revelations of managerial chaos and bitter infighting in the country’s largest Aids body, the Aids Consortium. As a result, large amounts of money from international donor agencies are at risk.
One early spring morning of bloodshed and carnage appeared to have given the armed Basque separatist group Eta, officially blamed for the Madrid attacks, a horrendous increase in its toll of victims, as experts said a group cornered by police might have lashed out in desperation.
Transport Minister Dullah Omar was still in a critical condition at Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic in Cape Town by late Thursday. Medi-Clinic manager Clive Lake said: ”The minister is still critical and he has been in the ICU [Intensive Care Unit] for the past 48 hours.”