South Africa’s former ruling party, the New National Party, says the South African Government should explain to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s government what media freedom is ”as it is clear it does not understand the concept”.
The government gazette has provided information that the lowest paid South African member of Parliament (MP) gets a salary package of R28 845 a month, including a substantial motor vehicle allowance.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has resigned from the South African Parliament, it was confirmed on Friday.
No contract has been signed with Barry Gilder more than a week after the Cabinet announced he would be the new home affairs director general ”with immediate effect” and doubts have been cast over the supposedly unanimous Cabinet decision.
Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota on Thursday pledged to ”humbly abide by and respect” the findings of Parliament’s joint ethics committee and the National Assembly’s eventual decision over his failure to disclose certain business interests, as reported in Friday’s Mail & Guardian.
South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has welcomed the speedy action taken by the joint parliamentary committee on ethics and members’ interests — which has recommended that Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota be required to forfeit seven days salary for not disclosing interests in the wine and oil industries.
The recommendation by the ethics committee of Parliament to sanction South African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota for a week’s salary is likely to cost him just R11 485.
South Africa’s Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa officially closed the Western Cape Metropolitan black economic empowerment (BEE) conference late on Tuesday, warning against a tendency to believe that barriers to BEE were insurmountable in some sectors of the economy.
Former President F W De Klerk opened the offices of the newly formed FW de Klerk Foundation in Tygerberg Hills Park in Cape Town on Tuesday, a representative for the foundation said in a statement.
Energy and Minerals Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka warned mining companies on Monday not to neglect the so-called ”soft issues” contained in the new Mining Charter, such as training, in favour the central question of mine ownership.
Eight alleged gang members had been arrested at the weekend in connection with the fatal shooting of a former African National Congress MP, Reggie Oliphant.
The South African government will not act irresponsibly or irrationally by giving taxpayers’ funds to previously disadvantaged individuals or companies that are ill-prepared or ill-equipped to meet the challenges ahead as part of the broader black economic empowerment agenda.
South Africa can weather the global storm posed by growing international economic integration by implementing sound economic policies and working together to use the country’s more open economy to the best advantage.
Former first lady Marike de Klerk’s killer, 22-year-old Luyanda Mboniswa, was sentenced to two life terms in the Cape High Court on Thursday. He also got three years for his forced entry — housebreaking — into De Klerk’s home.
A prominent labour law and labour relations consultant, Nicky Taylor, has been appointed the first chief executive officer of the Wine Industry Ethical Trade Association, Wines of South Africa said in a statement on Thursday.
The Dutch Reformed Church minister who officiated when former president FW de Klerk married his first wife, Marike, on Thursday testified in the Cape High Court about the former first lady.
A packed Nelson Mandela auditorium at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront listened intently as several former Robben Island prisoners regaled the audience with island stories at the official launch of Pan Africanist Congress leader Stanley Mogoba’s book.
Many Southern African leaders had singled out lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as scapegoats for their countries’ problems, the Human Rights Watch and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission said in a report released on Wednesday.
Former security guard Luyanda Mboniswa has been found guilty of murdering former first lady Marike de Klerk, but not guilty on a rape charge.
The government should review all public holidays of a religious nature, the National Association of School Governing Bodies said on Tuesday.
Incomes in South African black households fell by 19% between 1995 and 2000, while white household incomes rose by 15%. Last year, two out of three black households in Cape Town townships did not have enough food to eat, a recent survey has found.
From July this year, the South African government’s Department of Health will provide financial incentives to various professional categories in the country for the recruitment and retention of scarce skills in the public health sector.
The prosecution in the Marike de Klerk murder trial argued on Monday that the case against the former first lady’s alleged killer Luyanda Mboniswa was strong.
Legal argument about the Cape Town unicity’s affirmative action policy for its staff began on Friday in what may be a groundbreaking case in the Labour Court.
Convicted child sex offender James McNeil — dubbed the ”Father Christmas” paedophile because of his many stints in that role, dismissed his lawyer on Friday.
In the search for MPs in about 20 parliamentary constituency offices this week, we had just one close encounter, missed by a mere 10 minutes: MPs had either ”just left” or were at the office only on certain days.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has gained an important victory in the Mother City’s lower-middle class coloured suburb of Grassy Park. The by-election is one of eight held on Wednesday.
A new approach in resolving disputes over religion at South African schools should be adopted by government, says opposition Freedom Front leader Pieter Mulder.
South African men plagued by erection problems will soon be able to buy a new product from pharmacies countrywide which will give them more than an 80% chance of enhancing their sexual status.
The Democratic Alliance has urged President Thabo Mbeki to push for a watchdog organisation in the African Union to monitor the compliance of diamond-producing African countries with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will take to the streets
if the government does not ”come to the party” on the issue of Aids
treatment, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The government should stop meddling in the telecommunications sector and leave it to private companies to run as they see fit, says the Democratic Alliance.