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.
South Africa is a nation of gamblers with more than 70% of its population participating in the national lottery and 19% of the population engaging in casino gambling.
Addressing a group of journalists at an event marking the two-year anniversary of the Medecines Sans Frontieres’ antiretroviral therapy pilot programme in a Cape Town township, 21-year old Aids patient Babalwa Tembani is nowhere near ready to die.
The Grahamstown High Court ordered the immediate release on Monday of 25 children who have been languishing in jail for up to four years while waiting to serve lesser sentences in non-existent reform schools.
Police are currently attempting to track down family members of a woman who may be the mother of a teenager who claimed he was kidnapped when he was six.
Eastern Cape conservation has received a R8,1-million boost from the National Lottery to build a marine rehabilitation centre in Port Elizabeth, the beneficiary, the SA Marine Rehabilitation and Education Centre Trust, said on Monday.
Zola Skweyiya says it is time to reflect on how South Africa is ensuring that its social services truly benefit children in need. Speaking at the launch of child protection week, Skweyiya, the Minister of Social Development, focused on the socio-economic conditions in which children continue to live.
An East London daily newspaper says it has tracked down what appears to be the real family of the teenager in the centre of a saga that has caught the imagination of the entire country.
The government’s decision to issue a prospecting permit to an Australian mining company, allowing it to investigate mineral deposits along a pristine stretch of the Eastern Cape’s Wild Coast, has been strongly condemned by the Democratic Alliance.
To support its race for the new C-class Mercedes-Benz contract, DaimlerChrysler South Africa required that the provincial government ensured stability in the province, said DCSA’s Stephan Massner.
An estimated 11-million children younger than 18 were living in poverty last year, according to a study by the Children’s Institute of the University of Cape Town.
South Africa’s infant mortality rate is considerably higher than many other countries which fall into the same income category and even higher than many countries that fall into a lower income group.
Residents from one of South Africa’s poorest townships have destroyed the myth that Africans cannot be trusted with Aids drugs in the most dramatic way — by staying alive.
The late African National Congress struggle hero Walter Sisulu was buried in Croesus Cemetery in Newclare, Johannesburg on Saturday, following a moving ceremony at Orlando Stadium in Soweto.
Government sees a crucial role for traditional leaders, so it is vital they remain focused, united, and set an example to their subjects and the whole country, Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
Government sees a crucial role for traditional leaders, so it is vital they remain focused, united, and set an example to their subjects and the whole country, Deputy President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, with its bio-diversity and malaria free status, continues to attract strong demand for game farms, not only among overseas investors, but increasingly also South African buyers.
Five people, including a young mother, are expected to plead on Tuesday to charges against them relating to a brutal attack on two women academics in Peddie, in the Eastern Cape last year.
The Western Cape public protector has accepted a petition and a business plan from a member of the public who wants to build houses in rural areas using cannabis mixed with lime and sand.
Poverty was still the main scourge affecting poor people in South Africa, former president Nelson Mandela told a packed auditorium in King William’s Town, Eastern Cape.
The Apartheid Claims Task Force (ACT), an international legal team, started consolidating evidence in the Eastern Cape on Friday in preparation for jurisdictional hearings scheduled for May 19 in New York.
The sentence procedure in the case of Pretoria bus shooter De Wet Kritzinger is to start in the city’s high court on Friday.
De Wet Kritzinger admitted to having shot dead three people on a Pretoria bus in 2000, but pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and four of attempted murder on Tuesday.
A total of 145 members from the United Democratic Movement (UDM) have defected to the African National Congress (ANC) in Umtata in the Eastern Cape.
South Africans celebrated Freedom Day on Sunday with President Thabo Mbeki saying the government would continue carrying out its programmes to fight HIV/Aids.
Eastern Cape African National Congress chairman Makhenkesi Stofile closed the party’s 4th provincial conference on Saturday, telling delegates to work to rebuild confidence in the ruling party.
Eastern Cape ANC provincial chairman and premier Makhenkesi Stofile on Friday called for unity in the party warning against those who created artificial divisions out of ”mischief and self interest”.