A SMALL group of people gathered outside the magistrate’s court at Ceres in the Western Cape to protest against child labour in the area, SABC radio news reported. The protesters were supporting South Africa’s first ever child labour prosecution. The case stems from an incident in 1999 in which a farmer allegedly employed children during […]

Mdantsane; Springs, | Monday Two victims of a jilted lover’s shooting rampage in South Africa, where he killed 10 people before turning the gun on himself, were fighting for their lives on Monday, a hospital official said. Cecilia Makiwane Hospital representative Matron Lulama Geleba said Lindiwe Ntoni (45) and Mawethu Mqala (28) were still in […]

THE public would have to wait another 12 months to know if the Eastern Cape government would provide Nevirapine to all HIV-positive pregnant women, acting health MEC Max Mamase said in Bisho on Wednesday afternoon. This follows last week’s call by the Treatment Action Campaign for the authorities to provide Nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant women […]

Harare | Monday THE offices of Zimbabwe’s only independent daily and those of a company that printed opposition election campaign material were petrol bombed early on Monday in the country’s second largest city. The incident occurred amid an increasingly tense run-up to presidential polls on March 9-10. A security guard who witnessed the bombing around […]

Cape Town | Friday INTERNATIONAL best-selling author Wilbur Smith has led a double life for years under the name of Steven Bisset Lawrence in what his stepson believes is an attempt to hide his money from his former wives and children, according to papers before the Cape High Court. These claims by the stepson, American […]

Johannesburg | Sunday SAAMBOU’S curator, John Louw, will begin assessing the situation at the troubled top-ten bank. The Registrar of Banks at the Reserve Bank placed Saambou in curatorship at 1pm on Saturday. This means that Saambou account holders can no longer withdraw their money from the institution. Louw, of the KPMG auditing firm, told […]

Mdantsane, East London | Sunday Eleven people are dead and seven are in a critical condition in hospital after a man went on a shooting rampage in Mdantsane, East London. Police representative Inspector Stephen Marais said the suspect had a fight with his girlfriend on Saturday night. He shot his girlfriend at her house, then […]

BELINDA BERESFORD, Johannesburg | Friday SOUTH Africa is steadily clocking up trade surpluses with the European Union two years after the deal that concluded the long and winding battle of its trade agreement with the northern bloc. In the first 10 months of last year South Africa recorded a R25-billion trade surplus with the EU, […]

Justin Arenstein Tacit approval isn’t enough for Mpumalanga. The province will not provide nevirapine or any other anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-positive women until it receives direct orders to do so from the government. Outspoken provincial MEC for Health Sibongile Manana is on record saying that all anti-retrovirals are “poison” and a plot to undermine the […]