Vetern Africa correspondent and author Colin Legum died in Cape Town on Sunday morning at the age of 84.
The Cradock ”apostle” who last year predicted his own death, but carried on living anyway, is now offering what he claims is a cure for Aids and a range of other illnesses.
The offset programme of the multi-billion rand arms procurement package has markedly improved the economic landscape of South Africa over the past six years, according to Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin.
South Africa’s chief justice Arthur Chaskalson has questioned imposing lifelong sentences on those found guilty of serious crimes, noting that a high proportion of those in the country’s prisons were below the age of 25.
The reported fall in the number of high school pupils moving through the system to grade 12 or matric is the fault of education minister Kader Asmal, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has dismissed speculation that he means to retire in the near future, saying he is still fighting fit.
South Africa’s foreign policy should be directed to furthering democracy rather than cosying up to pariah states, Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Thursday.
The environmental non-governmental organisation Earthlife Africa says it is to press ahead with a high court challenge to Eskom’s proposed pebble bed nuclear reactor.
South Africa has emerged as the world’s fastest-growing tourism destination, with 6,4-million tourists visiting last year. This is an increase of 11,1% from the previous year, according to the Ministry of Environmental Affairs and Tourism.
A decision will be made ”soon” to roll out a national antiretroviral (ARV) treatment plan for people with HIV/Aids, Western Cape health member of the executive committee (MEC) Piet Meyer said on Wednesday.
The Catholic Church in South Africa has taken the first steps towards compiling a central database of abuse cases in its ranks, according to the church newspaper Southern Cross.
South Africa is a nation of gamblers with more than 70% of its population participating in the national lottery and 19% of the population engaging in casino gambling.
Lawyers for both Freda Adams and former Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel were tightlipped on Tuesday afternoon as intensive corridor talk between the two parties at the Cape High Court led to speculation of an out-of-court settlement.
Addressing a group of journalists at an event marking the two-year anniversary of the Medecines Sans Frontieres’ antiretroviral therapy pilot programme in a Cape Town township, 21-year old Aids patient Babalwa Tembani is nowhere near ready to die.
Victims of gang violence on the crime-ridden Cape Flats broke down in tears on Tuesday as they related their experiences to Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
The working committee evaluating bids for a majority stake in South Africa’s second national operator (SNO) has cut the short-list from four to two, the ministry of communications said in a statement on Monday.
The government’s proposed clean air legislation will allow industry to continue polluting as usual, according to a group of 40 organisations, including trade unions and environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
There was much legal jousting in the Cape High Court on Monday as lawyers argued about the admissibility of evidence in a civil case involving Western Cape politicians.
The South African government said they were monitoring the situation in Zimbabwe, following the arrest of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday and reports of violence.
Zackie Achmat of the Aids advocacy group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has been awarded the prestigious Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights by the Washington-based Global Health Council.
The Cape High Court heard allegations on Thursday of corruption and maladministration in the Western Cape social welfare department involving more than R1-million.
More than 1 300 jobs in the Western Cape construction industry were lost — some of them to Gauteng — in the 12 months to the end of June 2002, Western Cape Premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Thursday.
The government’s decision to issue a prospecting permit to an Australian mining company, allowing it to investigate mineral deposits along a pristine stretch of the Eastern Cape’s Wild Coast, has been strongly condemned by the Democratic Alliance.
A member of South Africa’s National Council of Provinces — one of the two houses of parliament — has warned fellow members not to develop delusions of grandeur and has even taken the mickey out of President Thabo Mbeki’s fondness for motor cavalcades.
Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota has disclosed interests in two properties to Parliament’s ethics committee in addition to acknowledging that he had not told Parliament of his oil and wine interests.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=14586">Lekota eats humble pie</a><br>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=14580">Lekota out of pocket by just R11 485</a><br>
Proposals ranging from a complete ban on all forms of ”adult entertainment”, to planning for legalised sex work were made to a Cape Town city council task group on Tuesday.
The large Lourensford wine farm near Somerset West, has embarked on the South African wine industry’s first fully-fledged waste water recovery project that will see the creation of two hectares of man-made wetlands.
One of the greatest threats to the realisation of child rights in South Africa and in sub-Saharan Africa is the HIV/Aids pandemic, the University of Cape Town’s Children’s Institute said on Tuesday.
The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) will on Wednesday request Parliament to set up a multiparty committee to investigate the arms deal, says opposition leader Tony Leon.
New South African companies are making forays into international markets much earlier in their corporate lifespan than the country’s established blue-chip firms did.
Environmental lobby group Earthlife Africa’s Pretoria High Court bid to block plans to build a pebble-bed modular reactor at Koeberg on the Cape West Coast was delayed once again on Monday.