Those worst affected by Aids need much more than anti-retrovirals. If the money is available it should arguably be spent on extending social welfare, basic services and supporting subsistence agriculture as well as boosting prevention programmes if we really want to help those worst affected by HIV/Aids.
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon says reports that President Thabo Mbeki has urged his Zimbabwean counterpart to end so-called land reform in that country are false, and that the president really said the opposite.
Yet another child has fallen victim to gang violence on the Cape Flats — the third in less than a week
National Assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala’s decision to proceed with a public reprimand of ANC MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela despite a legal challenge was tantamount to contempt of court, says Madikizela-Mandela’s lawyer.
Winnie faces tongue lashing in Parliament
Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi has taken his Zimbabwean counterpart to task for what he called the ”rapidly degenerating” political situation in that country, saying it could lead to a flood of refugees.
The government’s legal battles against the Aids lobby group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) last year cost R2,88-million, according to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
A Cape High Court judge late on Tuesday night ordered that the new Immigration Act, the bulk of which was supposed to come into force at midnight, should be put on hold.
South Africa’s tourism boom is official: Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Mohammed Valli Moosa said the country attracted over 6,4-million tourists last year.
The Western Cape’s three main political parties will be fighting it out in a key by-election in the leafy Swellendam on March 19 — the same day the country could be experiencing the defection shock wave at national and provincial level.
Health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang says she is not interested in Robert Giraldo’s dissident views on Aids, but wants to rather tap into his expertise in the field of nutrition.
South Africa needed to market itself and its successes more effectively to attract foreign investment, according to President Thabo Mbeki’s International Investment Council.
Former African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Tony Yengeni’s decision to quit Parliament was the correct action to take, the ANC said on Wednesday.
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/ 28 February 2003
Gerald Morkel, once Western Cape premier, Cape Town mayor and Democratic Alliance provincial leader, will be handed his political death certificate at the Democratic Alliance provincial congress in Stellenbosch
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/ 28 February 2003
The Scorpions are preparing to seize an alleged bribe of R340 000 paid by the developer of the Roodefontein golf estate, Count Riccardo Agusta, to the New National Party, the elite investigative unit said on Thursday
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/ 27 February 2003
An SA Express flight from Cape Town to East London, carrying a number of sports officials and other passengers connected to the Cricket World Cup, had to turn back after take-off on Wednesday when air started leaking through the front door.
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/ 26 February 2003
President Thabo Mbeki is expected back home on Wednesday in time for the presentation of the 2003/4 Budget in Parliament after taking part in the Franco-African summit in Paris and a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Kuala Lumpur.
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/ 25 February 2003
The two men who allegedly confessed to the murder of nine people at the Sizzlers gay massage parlour appeared briefly for the second time in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
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/ 24 February 2003
A Cape Town club co-owner was shot dead when four armed robbers held up staff and patrons shortly after midnight on Monday, Western Cape police said.
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/ 22 February 2003
Former deputy social development minister David Malatsi has rejected any suggestion of improper involvement in another controversial property development.
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/ 20 February 2003
The SABC’s correspondent in Zimbabwe was an experienced journalist who had worked for a number of credible news organisations and the stories he produced were of a high journalistic standard, the corporation said on Wednesday.
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/ 20 February 2003
Five people were wounded when two men opened fire on a group of people at a shebeen in Grassy Park near Cape Town on Wednesday, Western Cape police said on Thursday.
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/ 19 February 2003
South Africans in general believe there is widespread corruption and that it is a common occurrence, according to a report released by Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi.
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/ 19 February 2003
A count of all the large mammals living within the borders of the Cape Peninsula National Park will start later this week, park authorities announced on Wednesday.
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/ 19 February 2003
The official opposition Democratic Alliance has suggested that not only should African National Women’s League president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela be used as a human shield in Iraq — but she should move there permanently.
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/ 19 February 2003
The Scorpions moved in on the two men at the centre of the Roodefontein kickback scandal on Wednesday, arresting former Western Cape premier Peter Marais and obtaining an undertaking from former deputy minister David Malatsi that he will hand himself over on Friday.
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/ 19 February 2003
The Department of Correctional Services has reached an out-of-court settlement after a seven-year legal battle with a former inmate who sued the department after becoming infected with HIV while in jail
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/ 18 February 2003
Care needs to be taken that South Africans do not ”over exaggerate” the extent of corruption in society, says John Jeffery, parliamentary counsellor to Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
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/ 18 February 2003
Pan Africanist Congress MP Patricia de Lille Tuesday launched a stinging attack on South African President Thabo Mbeki’s stance on the HIV/Aids pandemic.
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/ 18 February 2003
The ”scorecard” that is to accompany the mining charter could be published before the end of this week, minerals and energy director general Sandile Nogxina said on Monday.
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/ 18 February 2003
South African politicians and officials have been talking to former defence, security and intelligence officers from Israel for four days in an attempt to find a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict.
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/ 18 February 2003
Cape Town’s Table Mountain is emerging as the favourite icon for branding South African tourism, says Environment and Tourism Minister Mohammed Valli Moosa.