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.
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) vowed on Friday to intensify its protest action, failing a positive response to its demands relating to issues like low salaries, transformation failures, police killings and overcrowded prisons.
White police officers should also be deployed in predominantly black areas like Lusikisiki, east of Umtata in the Eastern Cape, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha said on Friday.
The delay in establishing the Pondoland National Park in the Eastern Cape is due to opposition from the government in that province, Environment Minister Valli Moosa said on Thursday.
While the government holds up its mother-to-child HIV-transmission prevention programme as the continent’s largest, it is turning into a shambles in many provinces.
A total of 41 farms worth about R7,5-million will be handed back to the people of Guba village in the Lady Frere district, Eastern Cape on Saturday, the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs said.
The Umtata District Court on Monday granted 12 people, who were arrested in connection with the discovery of eight shallow graves inside a church compound in the area, bail of R300 each.
Da Gama Textiles is to spearhead a more than R200-million investment and empowerment project to develop the cotton industry in the Eastern Cape, the leading South African textile group said on Sunday.
The government must, at least, extend the childcare grant to children up to 18 years of age and make it available to child-headed households. "The worse off you are, the less likely you are actually to receive grants," says a senior researcher about proposals for a comprehensive social security system.
Winston Mankunku’s greatness is not exaggerated. His career is a vital thread in the jazz tapestry of South Africa, and he stands alongside other veteran greats like Hugh Masekela, writes Struan Douglas.
Taiwanese investment in South Africa was increasing for the first time since South Africa broke diplomatic ties with the East Asian state in January 1998, a seminar on Taiwanese investment in southern Africa heard on Thursday.
Fresh herbs grown in the dusty plains of Beaufort West in the Karoo, packaged and transported to the international market in 24 hours — this is the ultimate goal of the Western Cape’s first hydroponics farm.
About 150 doctors and nurses picketed at Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital in Soweto on Friday in support of a treatment plan for Aids patients, a Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) spokesperson said.
Eastern Cape officials have embarked on a clean-up campaign of a different kind; admitting homeless people to mental institutions.
A local wetlands conservation project of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has warned, ahead of World Environment Day on Thursday that South Africa will not have enough fresh water by 2020.