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/ 17 October 2003
Many fishermen angling from the shore along the Transkei coast are paying lip service to regulations governing the number and size of the fish they may catch, and most are ignorant about closed seasons for certain species.Richard Davies
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/ 15 October 2003
Thousands of Eastern Cape taxi drivers say they will support anything that will halt the government’s taxi recapitalisation programme because they still don’t understand it. Nearly four years after the government announced its plan to upgrade the ageing taxi fleet, provincial taxi bodies still complain that they have been excluded from all critical stages of its development.
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/ 10 October 2003
The Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Thursday it welcomed the expansion of the terms of reference of the Hefer Commission to include Justice Minister Penuell Maduna in the probe. ”But we believe there is still more work for the commission,” said Sheila Camerer, DA justice spokesperson.
Another court crisis for Ngcuka
Arms deal focus
Most Eastern Cape provincial departments have not responded to a request in May from the Public Service Accountability Monitor to provide it with information on disciplinary action taken against those allegedly involved in 409 reported cases of misconduct, corruption and maladministration.
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/ 26 September 2003
The idea of the Siyagruva series first came to me at a conference in mid-1999 when I listened to the head of the Centre for the Book in Cape Town, Elisabeth Anderson, talk about the need to get young people — teenagers — to read. Robin Malan, editor of the new Siyagruva series of novels for teens, tells how the successful project came about and developed.
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/ 24 September 2003
An out-of-court settlement between a farm owner and an occupant in Grahamstown recently is certain to attract attention from stakeholders rural reform policies. It is the first time that the Legal Resources Centre has handled a case in which there was ”such a favourable outcome” for the evicted occupant.
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/ 23 September 2003
About 5,3-million people in South Africa, or 31,2% of those economically active, were officially unemployed in March this year, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. The corresponding figures for September and March last year, which Stats South Africa provided earlier, were 30,5% and 29,4% respectively.
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/ 22 September 2003
Southern Africa is set to increase its annual output of aluminium from 1,1-million tons to 1,384-million tons, or 7% of global output, once the expansion of the Hillside and Mozal smelters is complete in 2004, BHP Billiton Aluminium South Africa president Mahomed Seedat said on Monday. At present, Southern Africa has three aluminium smelters — […]
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/ 19 September 2003
South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma has called the probe into allegations of corruption related to the multi-billion rand arms deal and his own alleged involvement, a test of South Africa’s democracy, saying the affair has actually proven how mature the country’s democracy has become.
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/ 19 September 2003
A special report by the provincial auditor general has highlighted financial mismanagement in most of the Eastern Cape’s municipalities. The shocking facts in the report include that 21 local authorities have not provided financial statements for two or more years.
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/ 19 September 2003
A story doing the rounds seeks to explain the inexplicable: how could Mbeki appoint Manto as acting prez while he and Zuma were out of the country? Apparently it was feared that if any more capable person was appointed, the people wouldn’t want Mbeki and Zuma back, Oom Krisjan muses.
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/ 17 September 2003
I was chatting to Oom Krisjan Lemmer in the Dorstbult Bar the other day. ”Subsistence farming? Jy trek my been, man!” he exclaimed. ”It will take our farming backwards. ”Modern boerdery is about the market, including exports. It needs capital and skills. Only plaas-yuppies can win in this business.”
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/ 14 September 2003
The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions has proof that its director, Bulelani Ngcuka, is not an apartheid spy, it was reported by a Cape Town television station.
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/ 11 September 2003
South African Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana told the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration in a Cape Town seminar that the commission plays a vital role in protecting the rights of the most vulnerable of workers.
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/ 8 September 2003
Assuming the world’s least-developed countries will be able to come up with the resources to pay for and conserve fragile ecosystems is not sensible. This is the opinion of Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Valli Moosa, who spoke at a briefing ahead of the opening of the fifth World Parks Congress.
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/ 3 September 2003
There were 276 022 South Africans ”on the run” from the police at the end of April this year, according to figures provided by Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
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/ 1 September 2003
The government’s claim that South Africa was not a crime capital and compared favourably with the rest of the world is refuted by United States crime figures, says official opposition chief whip Douglas Gibson.
Western Cape divers will be the main beneficiaries of the new 10-year perlemoen harvesting rights that places a moratorium on quotas for recreational divers and eliminates larger fishing companies from competing for the rapidly dwindling mollusc.
It may be considered one of the worst airports in the Eastern Cape, but Umtata airport still attracts a fair share of passengers.
The African National Congress overturned a huge Democratic Alliance majority in a municipal ward in Uitenhage on Wednesday, winning a by-election by 248 votes and 48% of the vote.
Phase three of the Kei Rail Project gets rolling on Thursday with a special launch by the Eastern Cape government at the Kei Bridge between East London and Umtata.
One of the South Africa’s leading hospitality groups has urged the country’s ”lily white” tourism industry to proactively push transformation and not wait for government intervention.
Cape Town began mopping up on Tuesday in the wake of a storm that brought snow, gale force winds and driving rain, and sent temperatures plunging.
South Africa’s anticipated crisis of two-million Aids orphans by 2015 could be halved if the government sticks to its promise to rollout anti-Aids drugs, according to Department of Social Development projections.
Almost half the patients tested recently for HIV/Aids at Frere Hospital in East London and 35% of patients in the tuberculosis ward at Umtata General hospital were shown to be HIV-positive.
Given the expectation of sharply declining inflation in 2003, real house prices are expected to rise for the fourth consecutive year this year. An increase in house prices of more than 18% nominal and 10% real is forecast.
Reform school as a sentencing option for juveniles is ”all but a dead letter” in South Africa as there is only one reform school to service eight of the nine provinces, the Grahamstown High Court heard on Monday.
President Thabo Mbeki says everything necessary needs to be done to speedily advance the emancipation of South Africa’s women, as well as those on the rest of the continent.
The number of warrants of arrest issued for maintenance defaulters dropped from 61 499 in 2000 for all nine provinces in South Africa to 53 531 in 2001, according to figures released to Parliament by Justice Minister Penuell Maduna.
There will be no retrenchment of excess public service staff before June next year, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Monday.
Over three-quarters of South Africa’s municipalities had not submitted financial statements for the 2001/02 financial year by September last year, in contravention of legislation requiring they do so.
The South African government has confirmed that fundamental changes have been made to liquor legislation — stopping in its tracks a form of the legislation which would have curtailed distribution and manufacturing by the same players.