South Africa was ranked fourth out of 21 countries in a new survey by the World Economic Forum (WEF) rating African countries for good governance. Botswana was ranked first.
A study is being conducted to determine the prevalence of HIV/Aids among teachers, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Monday. He said he was not convinced by some of the ”alarmist” reports being produced by research agencies on the prevalence of HIV/Aids among teachers.
President Thabo Mbeki drew on Mahatma Gandhi for inspiration on Friday night in a new call for an end to corruption and dishonesty, which he said prejudiced the poor.
Three of the four men accused of murdering a son of the KwaZulu-Natal social services and development MEC earlier this year, appeared briefly in the Mtubatuba Circuit Court on Monday, police reported.
Many African ports can anticipate the kind of pressure on their infrastructure South Africa is currently experiencing, as trade booms and economies grow through the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Monday.
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa has dramatically raised the stakes in the competition for South Africa’s burgeoning ”smart-card” industry by directing a raft of allegations against one of the key local players, businessman Robert Gumede.
South Africa’s differences with the United States over the war in Iraq will not affect ”the many sided relations” South Africa had with the US, says Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
Embattled KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali has refused to cave in to demands by the African National Congress (ANC) to incorporate three of its members into his provincial cabinet after the power balance in the provincial legislature shifted in its favour.
The African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal has given premier Lionel Mtshali until Wednesday to reinstate three ANC MECs he fired from the province’s coalition government or face unspecified action.
British defence giant BAE Systems is backing human trials in South Africa of a Russian-designed radiation machine touted as a radical new treatment for HIV/Aids.
South Africa must protect the advantage it has over many other emerging market economies, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Wednesday.
The investigation into multimillion-rand kickbacks in the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Housing is about to widen after the arrest in the second week of March of the province’s housing CEO. Police say it is likely that the asset forfeiture unit could get involved in the investigation.
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/ 25 February 2003
A Durban herbalist and an employee were arrested on Monday for alleged possession of commercial explosives that they were reportedly selling to members of the public to cure ”aches and pains”.
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A group of San (Bushmen) from Lake Chrissie in Mpumalanga visited the mountain peaks of their forefathers in KwaZulu-Natal last week, along with local San descendants and other San from the Northern Cape.
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/ 4 February 2003
The editor of The Mercury newspaper in KwaZulu-Natal defended his decision not to place an advert from pro-life organisation, Christians for Truth, saying that ”the paper encourages debate”.
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/ 30 January 2003
The ”so-called” out-of-court settlement between the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) to ”doctor” the TRC report was a cause for serious concern, the African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal said on Thursday.
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/ 27 January 2003
Two more men have been arrested in connection with last week’s attack which claimed the life of KwaZulu-Natal social welfare MEC Prince Gideon Zulu’s son, police said on Monday.
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/ 21 January 2003
Prince Mazwi Zulu, who was shot on Monday in an attack on a car carrying him and his mother near Ulundi on Monday died in Durban’s St Augustine’s hospital just before 3pm on Tuesday.
A policeman and three suspected robbers were killed in a shootout after a high speed chase north of Durban on Thursday. This brings the number of policemen killed since Saturday to at least four.
The pending settlement of a land dispute case in northern KwaZulu-Natal could become an example for the rest of South Africa, which, like its neighbour Zimbabwe, is faced with a need to conduct land reform.
The ashes of a South African man considered to be the ”last hero of the Titanic” will be scattered off the country’s east coast after his death last month at age 104, a relative said Thursday.
The Durban-based Sunni Ulama Council of South Africa has rejected the views of a Saudi Grand Mufti that the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed was heresy as it mimicked Christmas.
At least 5,7-million children in South Africa, roughly a third of those under 18, would have lost one or both parents from Aids by 2015.
Environmental activists Greenpeace on Wednesday invaded the property of a oil refinery in Durban to demand clean energy.
African foreign ministers were on Wednesday ready to begin refining the nuts and bolts for the launch of the African Union next week.
The Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, was expected to arrive at Durban harbour at 3pm on Sunday, Greenpeace representative Sara Holden said.
Former US president Jimmy Carter launched a house building project to provide 100 homes in Durban, calling on volunteers ”to get their hands dirty”.
The Shell oil company, far from being reborn as an
environmentally conscious energy firm, continues to pollute the environment, Durban environmental activists said on Tuesday.
SOUTH AFRICA was the only tourism destination in the world to have increased its market share after the terror attacks on the United States on September 11 last year, Tourism Minister Valli Moosa said at the weekend.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa said Anglo American had offered his government -million to offset its withdrawal from troubled Konkola Copper Mines (KCM).
It is too early to use Zimbabwe as a test case for the peer review mechanism proposed in the New Partnership for Africa’s Development.
Six people were rushed to a Richards Bay hospital in
KwaZulu-Natal after a Puma helicopter crashed on the deck of the Jolly Rubino trawler on Saturday morning, government officials said.