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”.
The Eastern Cape education department is losing R5,3-million a day because of teacher absenteeism alone, says education MEC Nomsa Jajula.
The government must immediately carry out the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the treatment of mothers living with HIV and Aids, as well as their newly born babies, according to a SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) report.
The Limpopo province has the lowest concentration of doctors in South Africa, with just 9,5 for every 100 000 of the population, according to figures released by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
After delivering an impressive set of results, supermarket group Pick ‘n Pay showed its intentions to broaden its horizons within and beyond South Africa’s borders.
Piles of ash and plastic bags containing ash and bone fragments that could be the remains of between 700 and 800 people were discovered on a beach in East London over the weekend, Eastern Cape police said on Tuesday.
The Eastern Cape city of East London was gearing up to become the hub of the automotive industry in South Africa, the area’s Industrial Development Zone Corporation said on Tuesday.
Pam Golding Properties (PGP), South Africa’s largest residential property sales company by turnover, has recorded record annual sales of R6,521-billion rand for the financial year.
A total of 25 777 cases of drunk driving were reported in 2001, of which 8 675 involved accidents, according to Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
Thousands of people gathered in the University of Transkei stadium near Umtata in the Eastern Cape on Sunday to pay tribute to slain SA Communist Party leader, Chris Hani.
All this floor-crossing has the manne at the Dorsbult quite confused. In fact we spent so much time redrawing our colour-coded diagram of the National Assembly that Oom Krisjan had no time to remark on the movements last week.
The departments of environmental affairs and justice are seriously considering extending environmental courts across the country, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Valli Moosa said on Wednesday.
Fourteen provincial government officials in Port Elizabeth and East London were arrested on Thursday as the Scorpions continued their crackdown on corruption in the Eastern Cape government
The pace of housing delivery appears to be slowing down, according to the Intergovernmental Fiscal Review (IGFR), released on Tuesday.
The case against former President Nelson Mandela’s praise singer Zolani Mkiva for alleged tax evasion was postponed in the East London Regional Court on Tuesday.
South Africa’s largest gold miner AngloGold (ANG) has budgeted R25,8-million for its group HIV/Aids programme in South Africa in 2003 from R16,2-million in 2002, the company’s HIV/Aids manager Dr Petra Kruger said on Tuesday.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has now officially beaten the Democratic Alliance (DA) in raiding the smaller parties during the two-week defection period allowing politicians to cross the floor.
Eight people, including former President Nelson Mandela’s official praise singer, a police officer and a traditional leader, were arrested on Thursday for allegedly defrauding the Eastern Cape government.
Almost two years ago, then ANC Chief Whip Tony Yengeni stood defiant before his peers in the National Assembly and protested his innocence, but on Wednesday he quit Parliament in disgrace.
Former African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Tony Yengeni’s decision to quit Parliament was the correct action to take, the ANC said on Wednesday.
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/ 28 February 2003
Seven Eastern Cape government officials and a policeman appeared in Umtata and East London courts on Thursday after they were arrested in connection with fraud, theft and corruption.
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/ 27 February 2003
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s fraud and theft trial was placed on hold once again on Thursday because her co-accused, Addy Moolman, had not yet recovered from injuries sustained in a car crash.
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/ 17 February 2003
A top Eastern Cape legal expert has been appointed as chairman of a committee to oversee the environmental impact of the Coega Industrial Development Zone near Port Elizabeth, the National Ports Authority announced on Monday.
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/ 17 February 2003
Having seen far too many of his friends die of Aids, Oom Krisjan is a fervent supporter of efforts to persuade the government to ease access to anti-retrovirals. With no blasphemy intended, here is a modification of the Lord’s Prayer, adapted to our current crisis…
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/ 12 February 2003
United States Ambassador Cameron Hume on Tuesday criticised the South African government’s inability to spend available resources on HIV/Aids and questioned whether it would utilise the roughly R1,7-billion his government had earmarked to combat the disease in 2004.