No image available
/ 16 September 2003
The government should let pharmaceutical companies know that if negotiations on cheaper Aids drugs fail, it will not hesitate to issue compulsory licences, the Aids task team, set up last month by the Ministry of Health, has been told.
No image available
/ 16 September 2003
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon met in Cape Town on Monday to discuss their working agreement ahead of national elections next year. The meeting follows a joint parliamentary caucus meeting of the parties last week.
No image available
/ 15 September 2003
Opposition political parties have criticised the decision to make Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang acting president in the absence of President Thabo Mbeki and his deputy, Jacob Zuma, on Monday. Mbeki and Zuma are attending the Burundi peace talks in Tanzania.
No image available
/ 14 September 2003
The Sealand Express, which ran aground in Table Bay during a storm last month, is free at last.
No image available
/ 14 September 2003
The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions has proof that its director, Bulelani Ngcuka, is not an apartheid spy, it was reported by a Cape Town television station.
No image available
/ 13 September 2003
A teenage surfer died on Friday afternoon after being bitten by a shark at popular surfing spot, Noordhoek near Cape Town, the National Sea Rescue Institute confirmed.
No image available
/ 12 September 2003
The New National Party has come out with guns blazing against the proposed ministerial committee to investigate the allegation that National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid-era spy. The announcement of the committee probe was made by Minister of Justice Penuell Maduna on Thursday.
No image available
/ 12 September 2003
South African soccer star Mark Fish’s father, Malcolm Fish, was on Thursday jailed for two years for going on a string of drinking binges with stolen cheques. The magistrate said Fish had used the cheques to enjoy himself, and had shown little remorse.
No image available
/ 11 September 2003
The South African public service has identified 20 958 employees, including members of the South African National Defence Force, who are in excess of the skills requirements.
No image available
/ 10 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki has been quietly appealing to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to intervene and save the life of Amina Lawal, the woman sentenced to die by stoning for having a child out of wedlock.
No image available
/ 9 September 2003
An urgent bid by the SABC for access to the King inquiry into rugby’s race row was rejected in the Cape High Court on Monday. The SABC had asked the court to order the South African Rugby Football Union to instruct former judge Edwin King to allow it to broadcast the hearings.
No image available
/ 5 September 2003
Outgoing National Treasury director general Maria Ramos will be sorely missed when she leaves to become Transnet chief executive, opposition parties said on Thursday.
No image available
/ 4 September 2003
The Democratic Alliance (DA) launched its broad-based empowerment policy — which is based on merit instead of race — in Crossroads, Cape Town on Thursday.
No image available
/ 3 September 2003
There were 276 022 South Africans ”on the run” from the police at the end of April this year, according to figures provided by Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
No image available
/ 3 September 2003
Though perceptions still mattered to investors, pessimism about Africa was no longer a problem, Standard Bank chief economist Dr Iraj Abedian told the Cape Town Press Club on Tuesday.
No image available
/ 3 September 2003
A novel quid pro quo deal, involving the state taking over farm capital costs in exchange for land for emerging farmers, was presented to President Thabo Mbeki during his Western Cape imbizo tour. The deal could secure about 1 400 jobs and create 600 new jobs and 800 seasonal jobs.
No image available
/ 2 September 2003
The two former joint chief executives of the now-defunct company LeisureNet Ltd, appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on charges of fraud and violations of the Companies Act.
No image available
/ 1 September 2003
The government’s claim that South Africa was not a crime capital and compared favourably with the rest of the world is refuted by United States crime figures, says official opposition chief whip Douglas Gibson.
No image available
/ 1 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki faced some difficult questions at the final meeting of a three-day Western Cape imbizo held in Worcester — including why ANC members should vote for the ANC-NNP coalition and whether people living with HIV/Aids could receive a special grant.
No image available
/ 1 September 2003
There is ”absolutely no” danger of pollution from the Maersk Sealand Express, beached close to shore at Milnerton, Cape Town, says a spokesperson for the ship’s operators.
The Zuma affair and ongoing controversy over the arms deal reinforced the argument that political parties’ funding sources should be made public, Idasa analyst Richard Calland said on Wednesday.
South Africa’s largest cigarette manufacturer, British American Tobacco, says it is deliberately not seeking to expand its business in the country.
The Pan Africanist Congress has expelled its former secretary general Thami ka Plaatjie and former secretary for education, Snail Mgwebi, as ”unrepentant divisionists”.
The 19-day chase of a Uraguayan trawler with a suspected hold full of poached Patagonian toothfish is expected to reach a climax within hours.
The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Amendment Bill — which widens the definition of rape — has been tabled in Parliament.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma again proclaimed his innocence on Tuesday on corruption allegations made against him, adding that the matter is in the hands of the court.
Former president Nelson Mandela on Monday almost became a victim of Cape Town’s latest bout of stormy weather.
Former president Nelson Mandela has criticised apartheid lawsuits against South African companies in foreign courts, saying South Africans do not need ”outside interference”.
They came in their hundreds, rather than thousands, and there were a fair number of BMWs and Mercedes in the parking lot outside the Rocklands Civic. But Sunday’s rally marking the 20th annivesary of the founding of the United Democratic Front was for many still a poignant occasion.
The department of environment affairs says it has demanded ”as a matter or urgency” that the owners of the stricken Sealand Express come up with a plan to remove its cargo.
The pumping of fuel from the Sealand Express, which ran aground earlier this week in the Cape, is going well, the joint operations committee set up to deal with the stranding has announced.