The IFP’s support remains entrenched in rural KwaZulu-Natal. The results of three by-elections held in rural wards in the Midlands last week also indicate that the rival ANC has lost some of its support base.
The series of imbizos across the Western Cape last week was billed as government interaction with communities, but the 2004 election could not have been far from everyone’s minds. There is still a stalemate in this crucial province’s politics.
The Medicine Control Council has denied that its decision to review nevirapine was a political one, saying it would not allow itself to be treated as ”banana regulatory authority”.
Simmering rebellion at the University of Durban-Westville reached boiling point this week, with powerful university staffers predicting that controversial new vice-chancellor Dr Saths Cooper could soon be looking for altenative employment.
The retail price of petrol in South Africa will rise by 18 cents a litre on Wednesday August 6, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Friday.
The Stellenbosch wine region in the Western Cape should seriously consider wine tourism as an option to counter the stranglehold of the stronger rand on wine exports.
Pressure mounts on Scorpions as scope of investigation expands.
French soldiers deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) northeastern town of Bunia have heard distressing accounts of brutality from residents of surrounding villages, but their peacekeeping mandate is limited.
"Hunting dogs are sent into the veld by their owners to catch animals. When the dogs have caught them, the owners eat all the meat and then throw the dogs the bones. The only difference between hunting dogs and mineworkers is that we are sent underground to catch gold."
Embattled former transport minister Mac Maharaj and his wife Zarina have become the latest ”victims” of an apparent leak from the Scorpions unit.