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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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.
MPs have re-opened the process of finding a suitable successor for Public Protector Selby Baqwa, after only seven nominations were received for the key post.
Former North West sports director Thabiso Mokoena was found guilty in the Mafikeng Regional Court on Tuesday on 85 counts of fraud totalling R1,3-million.
Prison gangs are using HIV infection by rape as punishment in a grim ritual known as ”slow puncture”, the Jali Commission heard on Wednesday.
The cleanest town in South Africa as well as the dirtiest town will be announced by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism on Wednesday.
The leadership of the SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) was confident on Thursday that two days of behind-closed-doors discussions in East London this week would help to refocus the embattled organisation.
Following Friday’s announcement that South African Bali blast victims Craig Harty and Godfrey Fitz were officially presumed dead, no further details could be released on the status of South Africans who remained on the island.
The Eastern Cape Tourism Board suffered a R3-million loss when seven of its white rhinoceros at the Tsolwana Game Reserve died recently.
The Gauteng health department is urging parents in local communities to get youths at initiation schools in the rugged hills around Heidelberg to come home.
Some of the children who were thought to have died of hunger recently in the Eastern Cape had in fact died of HIV/Aids, the provincial department of social development said on Thursday.
Three political parties on Monday called on the Justice Department to release the details of the 33 prisoners who were granted a presidential pardon over the weekend.
Retired military generals and top ANC figures recently reached agreement on a form of extended amnesty.
President Thabo Mbeki says that the 33 people he pardoned for crimes including murder and robbery were jailed because of their involvement in the South African freedom struggle.
Drama in the trial of three men accused of murdering East London businessman Martin Whitaker continued in the East London Regional Court on Friday when the State withdrew armed robbery and murder charges against the last man still facing the charges.
The killing of policemen has sharply declined in the first five months of this year compared to the same period last year, police said on Wednesday.
President Thabo Mbeki has met vice-chancellors of the historically disadvantaged universities and technikons, as part of government’s ongoing consultations with those affected by the planned restructuring.
One of the political prisoners who was granted a controversial special presidential pardon in May has appeared in court on murder and armed robbery charges.
Reports of widespread damage amounting to millions of rands have been received from parts of the Eastern Cape due to a gale-force wind blowing in the region on Tuesday.
THERE was nothing unique or strange about the release of 28 men from Eastern Cape prisons after a pardon was granted by President Thabo Mbeki, the Justice Department said on Monday.
Political control changed hands in 21 municipalities in four provinces following a 15-day floor-crossing window period for local councillors — 13 of them in the Western Cape, it emerged on Friday.
Over the last 10 days around 1 000 people, aged between three weeks and 95 years, have climbed — or been carried up — mountains across South Africa as part of a countrywide celebration of the International Year of the Mountain.
Sixteen people, allegedly part of a kangaroo court in Msobomvu near Butterworth, were arrested on Friday, Eastern Cape police said.
Three people froze to death in the Eastern Cape’s snowy weather at the weekend, bringing the total number of people dying as a result of the country-wide cold weather to 21.
Eastern Cape premier Makhenkesi Stofile should be fired, and national government must directly intervene in the running of the province, United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa said on Thursday.