Western Cape Finance MEC Ebrahim Rasool called on Monday for proposals to establish a government-backed film studio in Cape Town.
No conclusion could be drawn at this stage from allegations made before the Desai Commission of Inquiry, said the Democratic Alliance’s Western Cape chairman Theuns Botha.
Long-time SA Communist Party member and prominent figure in the liberation struggle Wolfie Kodesh, was cremated in Cape Town on Friday. Kodesh died in Cape Town last Friday aged 84.
Moshe, Zikwe, Zuzu and Neno will be back on SABC TV screens and radio with a new friend, Kami, a muppet living with HIV, when the second season of Takalani Sesame debuts on September 30.
The local Director of Public Prosecutions is to consider steps against the Cape Argus following a ”disturbingly misleading” front page report last Thursday concerning semen found in the Dolphin Beach apartment of former first lady Marike de Klerk.
Police have recaptured one of three People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) members who escaped from the Cape High Court’s holding cells last month.
Former Western Cape finance minister Leon Markovitz on Thursday denied a claim by German fugitive Jurgen Harksen that he had received a million rand bribe.
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday tax receipts for the year to March 2003 were likely to beat his budget forecast by 3,2% and promised further tax cuts in fiscal 2003/04.
National police commissioner Jackie Selebi has ordered a probe of what are reported to be allegations of victimisation levelled against his Western Cape counterpart Lennit Max.
The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) is to ask all political parties for information on private party funding, in terms of the Access to Information Act.
IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi says that despite rising tension between his organisation and the ANC, he and President Thabo Mbeki have yet to meet at party-to-party level to resolve differences.
Almost two-thirds of accident fatalities on South African mines last year occurred on gold mines, says the Mine Health and Safety Inspectorate.
About 2 000 Cosatu members and supporters chanted ”Viva ANC” outside Parliament on Tuesday as they delivered a demand on government to halt privatisation and job losses.
Diamond giant De Beers has warned the country’s proposed minerals law could put R8,5-billion in investment at risk because it threatened mining companies’ security of tenure.
No university should use Afrikaans as its single medium of instruction, according to a policy framework for higher education approved by Cabinet on Wednesday.
Parliament has written what is likely to be the final chapter on almost two years of political wrangling around the joint investigating team’s probe into the multi-billion rand arms deal.
Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi wants an electoral system that will make MPs and MPLs more accountable to the electorate and which will penalise them should they become ineffective or lazy.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has held meetings with ANC Women’s League President Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, but has yet to resolve outstanding problems.
President Thabo Mbeki says that the 33 people he pardoned for crimes including murder and robbery were jailed because of their involvement in the South African freedom struggle.
Embattled Cape Town unicity mayor Gerald Morkel announced he would assume a lower public profile until his name could be cleared, but that he would remain in office.
South Africans are generally becoming more positive about the overall democratic regime and more optimistic about where it will be in ten years time.
The HIV-Aids epidemic has yet to make its full impact on the South African economy and productivity, according to the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) Dr Debbie Bradshaw.
The Food and Allied Workers Union on Monday called for a consumer boycott of all Simba products, claiming the company’s use of so-called scab labour meant they could be unsafe to eat.
A fire swept through the Grootboom informal settlement north of Cape Town on Monday afternoon, destroying 450 dwellings and leaving 2 000 people homeless.
Education Minister Kader Asmal on Thursday signed an agreement with computer company Microsoft to provide all 32000 government schools with free access to Microsoft software.
Eastern Cape premier Makhenkesi Stofile should be fired, and national government must directly intervene in the running of the province, United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa said on Thursday.
German fugitive Jurgen Harksen on Wednesday left on a South African Airways flight to Johannesburg to board a Lufthansa night flight to Germany where he faces fraud charges.
Jody Kollapen has been appointed the chairman of the South African Human Rights Commission which began a new seven-year term on October 1, a commission representative said on Thursday.
The lack of journalistic skills in South African newsrooms will come under scrutiny at an indaba hosted by the SA National Editors’ Forum in September.
With three days to spare for a constitutional deadline, President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday night signed the Immigration Bill into law.
The days really do get shorter as you get older, although even the Old Testament patriarch Methuselah, who is supposed to have lived 969 years, is unlikely to have been troubled by the phenomenon.
Transport Minister Dullah Omar is taking questions online about this year’s Arrive Alive holiday campaign — and he is asking the public to click on the campaign icon on the transport department website to send messages to him.