A leading Aids researcher has slammed southern African governments for being slow, inadequate and unimaginative in their response to the Aids epidemic.
The New National Party, which was hit by 17 defections from its ranks in the two week defection period for politicians, has gained its first two defectors.
The South African government has rejected a request from the United States to close Iraqi missions and to expel senior officials in this country.
The Cape High Court granted ANC MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela an interdict on Tuesday to stop National Assembly speaker, Dr Frene Ginwala, from publicly reprimanding her in Parliament.
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi accused MPs serving on the Home Affairs portfolio committee Tuesday of treating him ”as a political doormat” in a tetchy interaction on Tuesday.
Senior government officials met in Robertson east of Cape Town on Monday to put a monetary value to the damage caused by last week’s devastating floods in the area.
Western Cape environmentalists and farmers are increasingly concerned about the multi-million rand proposal to build the Skuifraam Dam near Franschoek, saying it was a ”looming disaster”.
With a ”staggering” figure of 45% of the vote up for grabs Patricia de Lille’s new party could have a role to play in Western Cape politics, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) said on Friday.
African National Congress (ANC) MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela will seek an urgent interdict in the Cape High Court to stop National Assembly Speaker Dr Frene Ginwala from publicly reprimanding her, her lawyer said on Thursday.
Flamboyant Western Cape politician Peter Marais says he is to quit the New National Party and start up his own party. He is to formally announce the move at a media briefing in Cape Town on Thursday afternoon.
The Cape Town High Court has ordered the government to hand over key arms deal documents to a group which is challenging the validity of the multi-billion rand deal.
Extensive flooding in South Africa’s Western Cape, sparked by very heavy weekend rains, has caused extensive damage to about R12-million worth of wine at Van Loveren Wines, the family-owned wine producer located outside of Robertson.
Senior Inkatha Freedom Party MP Theresa Millin has defected from her party to form a new party — understood to be the African Independent Party.
The African National Congress has accused the Treatment Action Campaign of ”bully boy tactics” after its disruption of a speech by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
Firebrand South African opposition Member of Parliament Patricia de Lille is to clarify her political future at a press conference in Cape Town on Wednesday amid widespread speculation that she is to start a new political party.
The National Assembly will be abuzz Tuesday afternoon as old faces are seen in new political parties which means that positions on the brown benches are expected to be swopped about — the result of nearly four days of defections during the first official defection period for Members of Parliament.
Aids activists shouted down health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on Tuesday when she tried to address a public health conference in Cape Town.
The African National Congress appears to have snatched complete control of the Western Cape legislature — leaving only the KwaZulu Natal legislature out of nine provincial legislatures outside of its complete control.
The Inkatha Freedom Party has lost its education minister in its powerbase of KwaZulu Natal to the African National Congress. This means that power in the legislature could depend on the whims of the United Democratic Movement and African Christian Democratic Movement representatives.
It is not macroeconomic madness to suggest that South Africa should introduce a full menu of HIV/Aids prevention and treatment programmes. The resources are there. The issue is now one of political judgement and will.
The African National Congress could emerge with an overall majority in the Western Cape with expected defections from the New National Party bolstering their numbers in the legislature.
The African National Congress (ANC) was first to benefit from the first floor-crossing window period when a Democratic Alliance (DA) member crossed to the ANC in Kwazulu-Natal on Friday morning.
The national archivist and the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development last year deliberately lied to the Mail & Guardian about the whereabouts of 34 boxes of missing Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) documents.
The Democratic Alliance won a narrow victory in a key municipal by-election contest in the Western Cape town of Swellendam on Wednesday — pipping the African National Congress by 65 votes.
Draft legislation to tighten banking regulations and ensure banking executives act with skill and care has been tabled in Parliament. The Banks Amendment Act seeks to provide depositors protection against exploitation by means of reckless, negligent or fraudulent management of the bank.
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on Wednesday angrily denied he had referred to Aids drugs as a ”lot of voodoo”. He was forced to defend himself in the National Assembly after two opposition MPs criticised him for his reported comments.
The Scorpions investigation unit is within its rights to refuse to say whether it is investigating Deputy President Jacob Zuma, deputy justice and constitutional development Minister Cheryl Gillwald said on Wednesday.
South Africa’s multi-billion rand arms deal was challenged in the Cape High Court on Wednesday by a group which believes it can still be stopped.
The chief whip of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has admitted that the involvement of Members of Parliament — including Winnie Madikizela-Mandela — in cases of alleged fraud and corruption is embarrassing.
After numerous delays, including a nose-bleed and having the charges translated from Afrikaans to English to Ndebele, the NNP’s disciplinary hearing against Peter Marais and Peter Malatsi commenced at about 8pm on Monday.
A Cape High Court judge on Monday extended the suspension of the new Immigration Act and its regulations, which were supposed to have come into force last Wednesday, to April 7.
Ongoing gang-related violence on the Cape Flats seems to have stabilised after the deployment of hundreds of police last week in the affected areas, the Western Cape police commissioner said on Sunday.