Any government amnesty policy must apply across the board, argues. The government’s moves to start pardoning failed amnesty applicants will come as no surprise to those who have followed the TRC process — and particularly the stance of President Mbeki.
Township consumers who buy live chickens on street corners run the risk of contracting diarrhoea, skin ulcerations, abscesses and even typhoid fever. The health risk emanates from factory farms that dispose of old livestock by selling it to township vendors.
Communities surrounding Grahamstown are reaping the benefits of "ethnic tourism". Xhosa women are now doing beadwork as they have recognised "they can make business out of their culture and tourism can be used to boost rural economic development.
Activities of a company claiming to enforce copyright piracy laws appear designed to drive small competitors of the big film and video games distribution companies out of the market.
Did Judge Jerome Ngwenya condone suspect business practices? Evidence presented by him suggests he did. A high court judge knew about what he took to be an irregular attempt by his own company to win an airports tender.
A leading African intellectual close to the government may have blotted his copybook by signing a declaration criticising the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad). Dr Eddy Maloka is head of the Africa Institute of South Africa.
A row has threatened to engulf the Rustenburg municipal council over a multimillion-rand housing project for Anglo-Platinum employees. This is sparked by evidence that a contractor commenced work on the R350-million project without due council proclamation.
The Party faces embarrassment over contract with the notorious Aggett interrogator. The man whose company ”bug-proofed” offices for the former Western Cape government is the security policeman who led the interrogation of Neil Aggett before his death.
Sandton’s capacity to hold 65 000 official foreign bodies has seriously been called into question. The present sewerage system is apparently already ”under tremendous strain”, according to unnamed civil engineers.
Instead of being admitted to a clinic for a surgical abortion, women may soon have the option of a ”take-home” pill to end a pregnancy. The drug will be piloted at five designated sites countrywide from the end of September by the Women’s Health Project.