Johannesburg suburbs that have illegally erected boomgates have three months to either legalise or remove the restrictions.
Wrapping up one of the most sensational investment-scam cases ever in post-war Germany, Hamburg’s district court found Juergen Harksen guilty of defrauding investors of millions of dollars and served a term longer than asked by prosecutors.
Zackie Achmat’s article in last week’s edition of the <i>Mail&Guardian</i>, "A long walk to civil disobedience", deserves consideration and a response that is rational and measured. It will be a serious mistake if anyone, in his or her right-thinking mind, would stoop to the level of the author and personalise the important subject of HIV/Aids.
The African Union on Friday condemned the massacre of hundreds of people in northeastern Congo last week and said the violence was an attempt to derail the peace process intended to end the four-and-a-half year war in Africa’s third largest country.
The condition of a Pretoria businessman feared to have contracted the potentially deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), was improving on Thursday, the hospital operator Netcare said.
The 30-year deal spearheaded by Britain’s BiWater and signed in Mpumalanga’s capital Nelspruit in 1999 was supposed to rapidly expand basic water services into the region’s impoverished villages without placing a financial burden on the taxpayer.
The race for the premiership of the Eastern Cape has already begun as the African National Congress prepares to elect new office bearers in two weeks.
African election management bodies have proposed creating a continental forum to represent them at the African Union.
Inkatha Freedom Party members pledged their loyalty to the party and told a meeting held in Durban of alleged inducements to cross the floor offered to them by the African National Congress.
The refusal of African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) member of the provincial legislature Jo-Ann Downs to support a no-confidence motion in Inkatha Freedom Party Premier Lionel Mtshali has forced the two main political parties in KwaZulu-Natal to the negotiating table.