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.
A botanist has discovered a new species of flower right in the path of the proposed N2 highway along the Eastern Cape’s Pondoland coast, the Wildlife and Environment Society of SA said on Sunday.
A condom project touted this week as one of the most ”innovative” to stem from the offset programme linked to South Africa’s multibillion-rand arms deal does not yet exist and has yet to create a single job.
The 2004 elections would mean make or break for the United Democratic Movement (UDM), said party leader Bantu Holomisa when he opened an election strategy workshop in Pretoria on Saturday.
The presidency has washed its hands of the reported controversial outcome of a Nigerian oil deal supported by President Thabo Mbeki in 1999.
The Democratic Alliance continued pushing the Ministry of Safety and Security on Wednesday for the release of crime statistics on a more regular basis than once annually.
Projects flowing from the country’s multi-billion rand arms deal have directly created nearly 6 700 jobs, it emerged at an Institute for Security Studies (ISS) seminar in Pretoria on Tuesday.
What happened to South Africa’s avant-garde? Following the recent New Music Indaba, Mary Rörich contemplates the relevance of international musical styles in cotemporary South Africa.
Gauteng has notched up the highest figure in South Africa for abandoned babies, accounting for 268 of the 409 babies abandoned nationally last year, according to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
Testing young girls for virginity is a violation of human rights and the right to bodily integrity, Eastern Cape women’s and children’s organisations said on Wednesday.
South African members of Parliament (MPs) were clearly informed of the procedures applying to the travel voucher scheme — now the subject of a forensic audit — as far back as August 2001, according to a circular issued by Parliament.
The proposed construction of a toll road through one of the country’s last unspoilt wildernesses has raised heated debate.
Five traditional surgeons have been arrested in the Eastern Cape after 20 initiates died following botched circumcisions since the start of the initiation season around early June, the provincial health department said on Monday.
A total of about 7 000 women around the country had received the anti-retroviral drug nevirapine at State hospitals and clinics by December last year, according to South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana has called for farmers to ensure that better safety measures are in place after the work-related deaths of three farm workers over the past few days.
The son-in-law and grandson of Koos Malgas, assistant to Eastern Cape artist Helen Martins, have appeared in court in connection with vandalising her works, a Sunday newspaper reported.
The room occupancy rate and the bed occupancy rate of hotels in South Africa for May 2003 increased by 0,2% and 0,9% respectively, compared with May 2002, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday.
World Population Day, which will be celebrated on Friday, will focus on the youth of South Africa, social development minister Zola Skweyiya said on Monday.
Any attempt to extract heavy minerals from the dunes along the Eastern Cape’s Pondoland coast will be massively destructive; according to one South African expert, such mining operations typically wipe out everything in their path.
Five of the nine provinces had underspent their HIV/Aids grant allocations for the 2002/2003 financial year.
Seven initiates have died from complications, dehydration and assault in the Eastern Cape since the beginning of the circumcision season, the provincial health department said on Thursday.
Environmental Affairs Minister Valli Moosa and the Eastern Cape legislature are on a collision course over plans to mine heavy minerals on the Pondoland coast and re-route the N2 national road through the area, says the Democratic Alliance (DA).
About 340 cases of corruption had been identified in the Eastern Cape since a joint task team was established to tackle this scourge, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Tuesday.
About 70% of Pan Africanist Congress members felt the party’s recent leadership election was flawed, says former general secretary Thami ka Plaatjie.