Minister: that South Africans are in the dark about crime statistics must be blamed on the agenda of the opposition Democratic Alliance.
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/ 16 September 2008
The proposed Second-Hand Goods Bill could prove to be a bureaucratic nightmare, writes Lloyd Gedye.
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/ 31 January 2008
Dozens of police officers and members of the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union converged at a Durban school on Thursday, 48 hours after a former pupil went into the school and threatened teachers and pupils with a gun. The matter was only reported to police on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 16 December 2007
South Africa’s Missing Children website is to close during December due to a lack of funding. ”December is the busiest time of the year for runaways. There are the normal cases of naughty children running away during the holidays, but given the pressure on matric students waiting for results, we find an influx of kids running away,” said Pieter Boshoff, the organisation’s founder and director.
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/ 29 November 2007
Government ministers have failed to provide written answers to 343 questions posed by the Democratic Alliance (DA), said DA deputy chief whip Mike Ellis on Thursday. "Next Friday, December 7, is the deadline for the submission of replies to all parliamentary questions posed to government departments during 2007," he said.