Another Inkatha Freedom Party MP is likely to replace Gavin Woods, who this week resigned as chairperson of Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa), writes Marianne Merten. Indications are that the IFP is the party of first choice for the post, but it would mean Woods is out in the cold despite his stated […]
Can Montoya and Schumacher create a legendary rivalry to quicken F1’s pulse? Richard Williams As the only 22 men in the world entitled to call themselves grand prix drivers start up their shiny new cars in Australia this week, those of us who call ourselves grand prix fans could be forgiven for feeling that it […]
Marianne Merten Just 109 votes gave the African National Congress victory over the Democratic Alliance this week in the first Western Cape by-election since the ANC-New National Party provincial government took power. The narrow win has led the DA to claim it has kept its support in the NNP rural stronghold of Grabouw. The NNP […]
Bongani Majola Gauteng’s economic growth plan, Blue IQ, will pour R100-million into investments in the provincial eco-nomy over 10 years and aims to generate 100 000 jobs, finance and economic MEC Jabu Moleketi said in his budget speech this week. The R22,5-billion budget sets aside R744-million for the plan, that focuses on 10 key projects. […]
Can Manto Tshabalala-Msimang really be as abysmally stupid as her actions suggest? Is she, as a putatively qualified medical doctor, really as ignorant as presidential spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama of the difference between the complexities of long-term ”triple-cocktail” therapy and the simplicity of administering a single dose of nevirapine? Do we have to wait until the […]
A 67-year-old woman and a nine-month-old baby were still missing on Monday after they were swept away by a flooded river in Johannesburg last week, North Rand police reported. Superintendent Eugene Opperman said police, using boats, a helicopter and sniffer dogs, searched for the two in the Kaalspruit river from Ivory Park to Centurion.
The public prosecutor declined to prosecute an abortion case Niki Moore A dispute between police and the public prosecutor’s office arose this week over the prosecution of a young girl who aborted her own baby and buried the foetus in a forest next to a taxi rank in the Zululand town of Mtubatuba. Mtubatuba police […]
A POLICE detective was wounded by a sniper bullet on Friday while taking part in a crime crackdown operation, North Rand police said. Inspector M G Magopane, who was attacked in Daveyton, was taken to hospital where he was in a stable condition, said Superintendent Eugene Opperman. During Friday’s operation a team of 70 detectives, […]
The situation was normalising at Tsakane schools on the East Rand after protests apparently by the Pan Africanist Students Organisation (Paso) over the past week, the Gauteng education department said on Wednesday. Representative Lebelo Maloka said between 40 and 60% of learners attended schools on Wednesday following disruptions at the majority of secondary schools in […]
Grahamstown | Thursday THE Eastern Cape housing department has spent just 33% of its R540-million budget and has just one month left in the current financial year to utilising the remaining R360-million. Housing representative Mbulelo Linda said the ”mechanisms” for spending ”most” of the balance were in place through the Rapid Land Development Programme (RLDP). […]