A SENIOR National Treasury official was expected to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Thursday after two false identity documents with false numbers were allegedly found in his possession, the Home Affairs Department said. Interpol was apparently also looking for the man regarding alleged irregular activities in his home country of Zimbabwe, departmental spokesman […]

THE bodies of two women who had been stabbed to death with a bread knife were found in Rosettenville, southern Johannesburg, on Wednesday afternoon, police reported. Superintendent Chris Wilken said on Thursday 66-year-old Ethal Joan Jenkins and her friend Dawn Attwood (55) were attacked by someone who entered the Daisy Road house through the garage […]

Brussels | Saturday ZIMBABWE, facing possible EU sanctions, missed its Friday deadline for pledging in writing that it will accept international observers and journalists for its March 9-10 elections, sources said. ”They had a week to respond, and I’m not aware of any response having been received yet” by the Spanish EU presidency, said one […]

Staff reporter About 3 400 people in KwaZulu- Natal have been infected with cholera over the past six weeks, prompting a visit by Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Ronnie Kasrils and Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to the province. The Democratic Alliance’s Graham McIntosh said there had been 30 infections in the town of […]

The South African Law Commission this week launched its revised discussion paper on sexual offences radically proposing that the state should assume responsibility for “providing the financial means to cover the cost of prescribed medication for victims of rape”, including anti-retroviral drugs, writes Khadija Magardie. The treatment to be covered by the government also includes […]

John Matshikiza South African rail giant Spoornet has clinched a deal giving it a concession for the rehabilitation, operation and maintenance of the rail line from Resanno Garcia to Maputo in Mozambique. Spoornet will pay R200-million to the Mozambican government for this crucial 15-year concession. The concession will be in line with contracts signed by […]

Charlene Smith South Africa has declined an offer by the Thailand government of free technology for the manufacture of 300 generic drugs that will cut prices for HIV medicines up to tenfold. Thailand has pledged not to rest until every African country has generic drugs for HIV and has vowed to “ring South Africa with […]

Glenda Daniels Internal strife and chaos among key civil society players escalated this week and now bedevil the success of the World Summit on Sustainable Development due to take place in Johannesburg in eight months’ time. This week the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), arguably the largest component of civil society with nearly […]