The City of Cape Town is to install what is probably the world’s first ”penguin crossing” in an attempt to reduce fatalities among the jaywalking feathered pedestrians on the Simon’s Town main road.
In an unprecedented legal manoeuvre, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has approached the judge president of the Cape High Court and offered to mediate in an eviction dispute involving about 3 000 families.
The government must stop offering ”red herrings” as obstacles to a comprehensive antiretroviral treatment programme for people living with HIV/Aids, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.
It was time for academics to challenge the ”double-speak and duplicity” in the world, and stand up for fundamental human rights, Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane said on Friday.
A member of the Film and Publications Board has suggested, tongue-in-cheek, that South Africans use political leaders as symbols for film ratings, similar to an experiment that will be launched in England next week.
South Africa Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana says it is still too early for the International Labour Organision (ILO) to send a contact mission to Zimbabwe.
More money for land reform, especially for people in rural areas, was urgently needed, the director of the Surplus People’s Project (SPP), Herschelle Milford, said on Thursday.
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai broke off talks with the ruling Zanu-PF to launch his recent abortive mass action campaign, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said on Thursday.
The African National Congress has triumphed by four votes in a fierce election battle with the Democratic Alliance in Cloetesville in Stellenbosch, the Cape Times reported on Thursday.
Plans for short-term developments estimated to cost close to one billion rand at the country’s oldest port are well underway, with an environmental impact study for one project expected by the end of July.
Eighteen Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) supporters appeared in the Cape Town magistrate’s court on Wednesday on charges of trespassing.
Member of Parliament representing the recently established Peace and Justice Congress (PJC), Farouk Cassim, has resigned with effect from Tuesday, according to National Assembly speaker Frene Ginwala.
A total of 3 733 vacancies in South African government departments existed as at May 26, said Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi on Tuesday.
The government unequivocally supported and respected the independence of the judiciary, Justice Minister Penuell Maduna said in a statement.
The Treatment Action Campaign’s (TACs) chairperson, Zackie Achmat, was ”cautiously optimistic” ahead of Saturday’s meeting between his organisation and the government’s National Aids Council.
The Cape High Court dismissed an appeal on Friday against conviction, launched by peeping tom Fanie Terblanche, who concealed movie cameras in the bathroom ceilings of two different apartments in order to view two women undressing and taking a bath.
Former Western Cape MEC Freda Adams told the Cape High Court on Wednesday that she broke down in tears after Peter Marais told he she was ”not a woman”.
The South African Cabinet resolved on Wednesday that an Act of Parliament be processed urgently by the departments of home affairs and justice and constitutional development to govern next year’s national election.
South African National Assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala has issued a written reprimand of Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota in which she says his casualness in his disclosure of his financial interests "is both disappointing and regrettable".
Columbia is the most dangerous place to be a trade unionist, while Zimbabwe tops the list of trade union repression in Africa, according to the survey on violations of trade union rights released by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) this week.
Fresh herbs grown in the dusty plains of Beaufort West in the Karoo, packaged and transported to the international market in 24 hours — this is the ultimate goal of the Western Cape’s first hydroponics farm.
South Africa’s National Industrial Participation Programme (Nipp) has already produced more than 6 000 jobs of the 14 000 direct jobs targeted by 2011, says Department of Trade and Industry Deputy Director General Lionel October.
Some manufacturers and retailers are trying to undermine the new regulations governing the use of thicker, recyclable plastic bags, Environment Minister Valli Moosa said on Tuesday.
Grade Three learners at South African schools have not fared well in a nationwide survey of their ability to read and write — and scored a clear ”F” for numeracy.
A battle of wills between the government and the opposition over the release of crime statistics continued to rage in the South African National Assembly on Tuesday — with the police minister insisting that he would only release them ”later this year”.
The Cape Bar Council on Tuesday appointed two senior counsel to probe a dispute over legal representation in a Cape High Court challenge to the multi-billion rand arms deal.
Young jazz musicians from historically disadvantaged communities in Cape Town are set to benefit from free professional jazz training in a new initiative by Artscape, the performing arts hub of the Western Cape.
The South African Ministry of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology has accepted new place names for towns in the province of Limpopo — including Louis Trichardt’s new name of Makhado.
Trade and investment from South Africa is crucial to the development of the rest of the African continent, according to a study released on Tuesday.
Businessman Richard Young is suing Yunis Shaikh, brother of former chief of weapons acquisitions Shamim ”Chippy” Shaikh, for R250 000 for defamation.
For the first time in South African legal history, the state was on Monday ordered by the Cape High Court to pay wasted costs in a criminal case involving a woman who is alleged to have murdered her husband.
Zimbabwe’s information minister Jonathan Moyo has rejected what he labelled a ”racist” proposal by the Democratic Alliance for a road map for peace in his country.