The Swazi government has turned down calls for the supply of condoms to prisoners. HIV/Aids awareness campaigners’ calls for the distribution of condoms to prison inmates would not be met as sodomy was a crime.
Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota on Thursday pledged to ”humbly abide by and respect” the findings of Parliament’s joint ethics committee and the National Assembly’s eventual decision over his failure to disclose certain business interests, as reported in Friday’s Mail & Guardian.
The Afrikaner – the once-mighty tribe that moulded South Africa in its own image – is being stripped of its defences by new rulers, whose turn it now is to do as they did.
A British campaign group called on governments last week to clamp down on big oil companies, as it provided evidence of the damaging impact of the industry on the global economy.
South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has welcomed the speedy action taken by the joint parliamentary committee on ethics and members’ interests — which has recommended that Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota be required to forfeit seven days salary for not disclosing interests in the wine and oil industries.
The Democratic Alliance has called for the removal of Mpumalanga health MEC Sibongile Manana following an announcement on Thursday that her department had been placed under curatorship.
From his office window Cape Town, city manager Wallace Mgoqi sees the garage, a former parking lot, where he worked as a youth. And he still recalls the names of places like the White House Hotel in Cape Town where he worked as a "scullery boy".
Here is the single most startling finding on the South African labour market: a 1% reduction in the real cost of labour in the manufacturing sector would lead to a 0,7% expansion in job opportunities.
The amount of sewage found on bathing beaches may not seem directly related to privatisation. But the huge improvement in the number of "items a kilometre" on Welsh and English beaches after Britain sold its sewage treatment plants to private firms is a compelling argument in favour of privatisation.
The brave spin that British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw put on African developments could not disguise the reality that his visit took place against the bleakest backdrop.