Former South African president Nelson Mandela could act as a ”facilitator” between India and Pakistan to resolve their dragging dispute over Kashmir, the state’s former chief minister said on Friday.
The government’s action plan on school financing has received cautious backing
but critics say it should go much further.
Any attempt to extract heavy minerals from the dunes along the Eastern Cape’s Pondoland coast will be massively destructive; according to one South African expert, such mining operations typically wipe out everything in their path.
Lesotho King Letsie III told Southern African leaders in Maseru on Friday that the Southern African Development Community Summit on HIV/Aids was taking place at a time when sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Southern Africa, was threatened by the ”menacing dark clouds of the killer disease”.
Thousands of participants from all sides of South Africa’s liberation war still struggle to find a place in post-apartheid society.
An article in an African National Congress publication implies that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party should have walked out of the alliance, as Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) leader Trevor Ngwane did, over their differences with the government’s economic policy.
The launch of the Cape Town International Convention Centre last week buttresses the claim that tourism is much more than just leisure.
President Thabo Mbeki is likely to sign controversial legislation this month to outlaw the use of lethal force against fleeing suspects who do not pose an immediate threat.
Efforts by the Department of Labour to deal with poorly performing sector education and training authorities (Setas) have been met with resistance from business and labour.
A judge in Zimbabwe on Friday ordered the high court to set a date for hearing an opposition petition challenging President Robert Mugabe’s victory in polls last year, a lawyer said.