Bongani Majola Government moves to reconnect with the people were taken a step further this week when six African National Congress ministers, five deputy-ministers, three premiers and a host of senior officials embarked on a crash programme of visits to local communities across South Africa. Dubbed “Imbizo focus week”, the programme involves 52 separate visits […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni President Thabo Mbeki is set to use his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the weekend to launch a major drive for Africa’s inclusion in international bodies such as the UN Security Council. The inclusion of the African continent on the Security Council has been the […]

Barry Streek Chaos in the payment of social grants by South Africa’s nine provincial governments resulted in overspending of R570-million in the 1999/2000 financial year and payments of R28,7-million to corpses, salaried people, non-citizens and other illegal beneficiaries. This was disclosed in a report to Parliament by Auditor General Shauket Fakie, based on an audit […]

South Africa’s nine-wicket win in the first Test was not a flawless performance Peter Robinson The guys, said Shaun Pollock after South Africa’s nine-wicket victory over India on Tuesday, came back to bowl really well. As laudable as it may be for a captain to praise his team-mates, this sentiment is not entirely true. Pollock […]

A SENEGALESE chemical company, Industries Chimiques du Senegal (ICS), has teamed up with the UN Development Programme office in Senegal to launch a poverty reduction programme. Under the agreement, ICS will offer loans to small business entrepreneurs, particularly women and young people, as well as offer sub-contracts to others. The company will also assist UNDP […]

Washington | Friday THE International Monetary Fund on Thursday extended an immediate $64-million credit to Zambia, part of a three-year allotment of some $326-million approved for the African nation in 1999. The latest disbursement was endorsed after an annual review of Zambia’s performance, the IMF said in a statement. “Zambia’s economic performance continued to improve […]

BELINDA BERESFORD, Soweto | Friday VULNERABLE and in pain they may be, but patients at the world’s largest hospital have no guarantee they will even have sheets to cover themselves when they finally make it past the chaos of admissions into bedraggled Chris Hani Baragwanath in Soweto. Bed linen is in short supply, stolen by […]

CABIN crew on ailing pan-African airline Air Afrique decided after several hours of negotiations with the carrier’s management to suspend their strike, union sources said on Thursday evening. The decision by the airline’s 450 flight attendants ends ten days of industrial action which has seen all of Air Afrique’s aircraft grounded since October 23. The […]

THE African Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of approximately US $12,9-million to finance a fire wood project in Benin, a news release from the bank said. The project aims to reduce poverty through sustainable forestry resources management as well as improve the supply and demand for wood and promote alternative energy sources, the […]

Chaos in the Department of Labour has led to an irate Legal Resources Centre now struggling to cope with a flood of cases, writes Glenda Daniels A backlog of 5 453 uninvestigated workplace accidents coupled with an administrative shambles in the government’s compensation system for workplace injuries has now spilled over to an irate Legal […]