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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The King of the AmaRharhabe Kingdom, Maxhoba Sandile, has invited all chiefs to his Great Place in Mngqesha, Eastern Cape, on June 12 to discuss the controversial play Thuthula — Heart of the Labyrinth.
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.
It would be easy to dismiss the late John Berry’s cinematic adaptation of Athol Fugard’s play <b>Boesman and Lena</b>; those American accents and their perfect white teeth; the fact that Danny Glover in no way resembles anything approaching a San-Bushman or a "Hotnot"; the geographical problem of talking Eastern Cape when we’re clearly in the Western Cape; but that would be missing quite a few points.