The latest hotel occupancy statistics confirm Tourism Minister Valli Moosa’s description of South Africa as a ”hot” tourist destination.
The African National Congress (ANC) gained an overall majority in eThekwini municipality on Tuesday when six councillors took advantage of the floor-crossing legislation to join it.
About 75% of children younger than 17 lived below the poverty line of R400 per month in 1999, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa said on Tuesday.
In the application to have the ”crossing-the-floor” legislation declared unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court was told the defection law in question diminishes the Constitution and ”devalues the vote”.
KwaZulu-Natal has historically been one of South Africa’s more volatile provinces. With political tensions on the rise again, some analysts fear there may be potential for renewed conflict.
DEFENCE Minister Mosiuoa Lekota has stated publicly that the government’s attempts to end the economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe had failed, his representative said on Saturday.
Police believed they had destroyed whatever infrastructure the right-wing Boeremag organisation had, government representative Joel Netshitenzhe said on Thursday.
Rightwingers including the killers of struggle hero Chris Hani will be considered for presidential pardon, says Justice Minister Penuell Maduna.
Another initiate is feared dead after his friend escaped from an initiation school in Heidelberg on the East Rand on Sunday to seek help, police said.
The teenager apparently escaped after he discovered that the boy sleeping next to him was dead.
Former President Nelson Mandela on Monday chided younger African National Congress members for being unaware of the role played by the South African Communist Party in the liberation struggle.