Nelspruit, Washington | Tuesday The Washington Post has waded into the debate surrounding the Aids pandemic, highlighting the ANC’s resistance to wide-scale distribution of anti-retrovirals. In a scathing report, the newspaper quoted an open letter written by Rhoda Kadalie, a former anti-apartheid activist and now executive director of the Impumelelo trust in South Africa. “People […]

PUBLIC school teachers in Angola went on an open-ended strike on Monday to demand an increase in salaries in line with inflation, the teachers’ union said. The strike affects primary and secondary schools, as well as university. Inflation was at 49,5% in the first half of 2001, according to the finance ministry. The teachers’ union […]

GRIFFIN SHEA, Harare | Tuesday ZIMBABWE’S Supreme Court on Tuesday told President Robert Mugabe’s government to go ahead with plans to hand white-owned farms over to the black majority, in a turnaround that farmers called unprecedented. The interim ruling reversed an order issued in November, which had found Mugabe’s land reforms unconstitutional and told police […]

IT was clear that African National Congress Womens’ League president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela did not care whether she operated within the law, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Sunday. The DA was responding to newspaper reports that police raided Madikizela-Mandela’s Orlando West business premises in Soweto on Thursday and confiscated large amounts of alcohol. She was […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday THE council of the University of South Africa (Unisa) has agreed to find a mutually satisfactory agreement regarding the position of its newly appointed vice-chancellor, Dr Barney Pityana, the Education Ministry said this week. ”They will go and discuss various options regarding his contract and report back to the Minister,” higher education […]

ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Tuesday CAPE Town’s overcrowded Pollsmoor Prison was a potential public health hazard for the Western Cape, the doctor in charge of medical care for prisoners told MPs on Wednesday. Dr Stephen Craven — an independent contractor who has been in charge of Pollsmoor’s health facility for 13 years — was […]

Zurich, Johannesburg | Tuesday SWISSAIR Group, crippled by at least 15-billion Swiss francs ($9,1-billion) in debts, said this week it was splitting up, and it seems almost certain that it will sell it’s stake in South African Airlines. Swissair owns 20% of SAA. The company also holds stakes in Sabena (49,5%), the German charter service […]

THE chief executive officers of provincial hospitals in Gauteng are to have more power to hire and fire from Monday, SABC radio news reported. This in accordance with the recommendations of a commission of enquiry appointed a year ago to investigate allegations of ill-treatment of patients at hospitals, and cases of inadequate hygiene. The greater […]