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/ 14 December 2002
Government’s failure to recognise the powers and function of traditional leaders is causing African languages and heritage to face extinction, National House of Traditional Leaders chairman Inkosi Mpiyezintombi Mzimela said on Saturday.
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/ 14 December 2002
Thirteen of 73 prisoners who escaped from the Bizana prison in the Eastern Cape on Friday have been recaptured, the national Department of Correctional Services said.
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/ 14 December 2002
A total of 73 prisoners escaped from the prison in Bizana in the Eastern Cape on Friday. Provincial correctional services commissioner Raphepheng Mataka told Sapa police had rearrested seven of the escapees.
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/ 13 December 2002
The Pan Africanist Congress’ (PAC) eighth national congress which will decide the leadership of the party for the next three years, starts in Umtata in the Eastern Cape on Friday.
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/ 13 December 2002
Although all political parties have lost support recently, the African National Congress (ANC) continues to be the dominant party in South Africa, according to the latest Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) survey.
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/ 8 November 2002
The seventh annual Southern African International Film and Television Market (Sithengi) will this year, for the first time, hold a children’s festival, writes Maria Kurian.
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/ 1 November 2002
Kgafela oa Magogodi sees Alexandra through new eyes — those of a tourist.
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/ 1 November 2002
The hectic round of party conferences is in full swing, with branch committees going out on a limb, as it were, to prove they have the requisite number of members to justify their continued existence.
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/ 18 October 2002
One might think from the hullabaloo around the maize deal announced by the government last week that the problems of rising staple food prices have been solved at a stroke. This is very far from true — indeed some commentators see the announcement as little more than a public relations exercise.
This has been a depressing week for sports fans at the Dorsbult. Firstly that fat fool Pieter van Zyl runs on to the field and flattens the ref. Then Rian Oberholzer compounds the matter by saying: ”This assault perpetuates the image of the boorish, boerewors-eating, brandy-drinking supporter…”
Thousands of municipal workers are expected to march throughout South Africa on Thursday in demand of higher wages on the third day of a national strike.
South Africa’s initiation season ended at the weekend with a gruesome toll of 24 deaths reported to police and more than 100 teenagers hospitalised with gangrene and septicaemia after botched circumcisions and severe beatings.
The Treatment Action Campaign wants to act against provinces that don’t want to roll out the programme to prevent mother-to-child-transmission of HIV.
THE Eastern Cape’s seven provincially aided SA National Tuberculosis Association (Santa) hospitals are in financial dire straits.
<b>REVIEW:</b> <i>Love Child</i> (University of Natal Press) is a joyful collection of short stories and poems by self-styled praise poet Gcina Mhlophe, writes Lynda Harvey.
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/ 31 January 2002
The TAC has called on the Eastern Cape to administer ARV drug nevirapine to HIV-positive mothers.
Nigerian media group <i>ThisDay</i> (Pty) Ltd, which is to launch a national daily newspaper in South Africa early next year, has purchased CNA Entertainment, a company consisting of 71 retail stores in the CNA chain.
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) holds its first national conference in five years at Stellenbosch University next week — with elections likely to indicate whether the left or "right-wing" of the movement holds sway.
Spoornet’s CEO Zandile Jakavula and the company’s executive manager for asset protection, Chain Vilakazi, have been demoted, following a disciplinary hearing into allegations that the two acted in03 May 2002appropriately.
Pardoned former Apla cadre Dumisani Ncamazana walked from court a free man in East London on Monday after charges of illegal possession of firearms were dropped.
Pressure is mounting on President Thabo Mbeki to explain the criteria he used to pardon 33 prisoners in the Eastern Cape at the weekend.
Limpopo was the province with the highest economic growth rate last year. It also has the highest economic growth rate on average over the past six years, Statistics SA said on Thursday.
Heavy snow such as the recent falls in the North-Eastern Cape makes life unpleasant for sheep, but being trapped in the open doesn’t necessarily mean frozen mutton.
Umtata came to a standstill on Thursday afternoon when the Zulu royal house motorcade paraded through the streets ahead of a celebrity wedding that will see the royal Zulu and Nelson Mandela’s Thembu houses united.
Convicted murderers and robbers Simnikiwe and Dumisani Ncamazana will spend at least the next 25 years behinds bars after they were given life sentences in the East London High Court on Thursday.
Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine
Fraser-Moleketi has named a team of high ranking civil servants to assist the Eastern Cape government in stamping out corruption.
South Africa has a high demand for pregnancy termination services despite a high awareness of family planning, a research paper indicated on Wednesday.
Two arms caches that may be connected with the alleged rightwing plot to topple the government were discovered on Tuesday and Wednesday, police said.
The 130 people trapped in vehicles by heavy snowfalls in the northern parts of the Eastern Cape province were all rescued on Friday night, a disaster management co-ordinator said.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela paid an emotional tribute to his friend and fellow anti-apartheid veteran Walter Sisulu, who celebrated his 90th birthday on Saturday, calling him a giant of the liberation struggle.
Eastern Cape Premier Makhenkesi Stofile was building an ultra-modern house costing more than R600 000 after having demolished his modest home in his home-town of Alice.
Scores of people protested outside the Peddie Magistrate’s Court in the Eastern Cape on Friday during the appearance of five people charged with the kidnapping and assault of two women academics.