Mismanagement and failure to deliver essential health services in Mpumalanga has resulted in the Department of Health being put under curatorship on Thursday.
Their pay and perks may be the stuff of popular legend, but thousands of angry European Union officials went on strike this week to protest ”a provocative attack” on their fringe benefits.
There is no lock on the door, no phalanx of guards, no visible impediment to the drugs leaving the glass chamber that the laboratory technicians call a ”stability room”. The pills come in little white boxes with labels such as lamivudine, zidovudine and efavirenz, technical names disguising the fact that these tablets are the stuff of life.
It is no surprise that a president who has used intimidation, police torture and electoral fraud to hold on to power would not want events in his country reported overseas.
Here in the Dorsbult we’re still struggling to learn all 11 official languages. And they’re real languages, too, so spare a thought for the mental-health authorities in Multnomah County in Oregon, United States.
The evidence that hip-hop has been residing in South Africa for some years now is spray-painted on numerous walls in characteristic graffiti art. But hip-hop is about more than graffiti, writes Dikatso Mametse.
The government gazette has provided information that the lowest paid South African member of Parliament (MP) gets a salary package of R28 845 a month, including a substantial motor vehicle allowance.
Researchers have identified two separate cases where ARV-resistant HIV was transmitted up to three years after the virus developed its resistance.
The 6 000-strong Richtersveld community on the Cape West Coast moved a step closer to regaining the diamond-rich stretch of land they lost during the colonial era on Friday, when the Cape High Court ruled that records used in a parallel case could also be submitted as evidence.
US President Bush is preparing to bury a radical French plan which would help some of the world’s poorest farmers by ending the dumping of subsidised western food in Africa.