About 70% of Pan Africanist Congress members felt the party’s recent leadership election was flawed, says former general secretary Thami ka Plaatjie.
While the government holds up its mother-to-child HIV-transmission prevention programme as the continent’s largest, it is turning into a shambles in many provinces.
In this past Youth Day’s reminiscences it should not be forgotten that it was a linguistic grievance — the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction — that served as the pin in the grenade of the rage of the students.
Free State health Member of the Executive Committee Ouma Motsumi-Tshopo tabled an Initiation School Bill in the provincial legislature on Thursday in a bid to ensure the safety and hygienic treatments of initiates.
Critics of the judiciary should take note of the hard work being done in the country’s courts, a high court judge said during the sentencing of six convicted hijackers on Wednesday.
They believe God created an elect group of whites to rule the peoples of the world. They also believe the Bible forbids racial ”interbreeding”.
Pan Africanist Congress leader Maxwell Nemadzivhanani was expelled from the party for three years on Friday, and he will not stand for any position at the PAC national congress in Soweto on Sunday.
The purchase of a slice of Gold Fields by Mvela-phanda Resources may be one of the most significant in its acquisition trail over the past year and one of the largest empowerment deals in mining to date, but it worries analysts.
A highway gang was convicted in the Kroonstad Circuit Court on Thursday of 22 truck hijackings.
South African National Assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala has issued a written reprimand of Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota in which she says his casualness in his disclosure of his financial interests "is both disappointing and regrettable".
Vetern Africa correspondent and author Colin Legum died in Cape Town on Sunday morning at the age of 84.
The Khomani San still live in squalor four years after they were granted land in the remote Kalahari that consultants say could make the small band one of the richest communities in South Africa.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Friday called for Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota to be fired as a cabinet minister. Earlier this week the DA asked the Public Protector to investigate Lekota’s conduct.
Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota has disclosed interests in two properties to Parliament’s ethics committee in addition to acknowledging that he had not told Parliament of his oil and wine interests.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=14586">Lekota eats humble pie</a><br>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=14580">Lekota out of pocket by just R11 485</a><br>
Three rightwingers who were foiled in their plot to blow up the Vaal Dam last year, were convicted of sabotage in the Bloemfontein Regional Court on Monday.
Nature conservationists are elated after a low-key African renaissance event in Limpopo last week immediately bore unexpected fruit. Sixteen African wild dogs were released in Marakele National Park near Thabazimbi last week.
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.
Here in the Dorsbult we’re still struggling to learn all 11 official languages. And they’re real languages, too, so spare a thought for the mental-health authorities in Multnomah County in Oregon, United States.
Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota on Thursday pledged to ”humbly abide by and respect” the findings of Parliament’s joint ethics committee and the National Assembly’s eventual decision over his failure to disclose certain business interests, as reported in Friday’s Mail & Guardian.
The recommendation by the ethics committee of Parliament to sanction South African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota for a week’s salary is likely to cost him just R11 485.
Parliament’s ethics committee will meet behind closed doors on Thursday to discuss Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota’s alleged failure to disclose certain business interests to Parliament, committee chairperson Luwellyn Landers said on Tuesday.
Shadow falls on Lekota
DA calls for Lekota’s head
President Thabo Mbeki vowed on Sunday that government would do everything in its power to ensure that the Workers’ Day bus accident which left 51 dead was never repeated.
Black and white business in South Africa united on Friday when the presidents of the country’s four chambers of commerce signed a surprise agreement in Bloemfontein.
Complexity and controversy are often signs of great history. Good, clear writing is usually a bonus. Yet all three are to be found in Hermann Giliomee’s new magnum opus. The subtitle says a lot too: this is primarily a collective biography of the Afrikaner people.Biography as a genre is a form of history that focuses […]
The final death toll of the Workers’ Day bus disaster in the eastern Free State is 51, provincial MEC for public works, roads and transport Sekhopi Malebo confirmed on Sunday.
Police are to probe the cause of Thursday morning’s horrific bus crash near Bethlehem, eastern Free State, for the victims of which sympathy and financial assistance has poured in.
Police divers began searching for more bodies in the Saulspoort Dam outside Bethlehem at 8am on Friday after Thursday’s horror bus accident. Bethlehem emergency services confirmed that 51 bodies had been recovered so far.
Sixty-three people had been confirmed dead by Thursday afternoon after the bus they were travelling in plunged into a dam near Bethlehem in the eastern Free State, according to African National Congress.
80 feared dead in horror bus crash
Regret, shock, sympathy and condolences for the families of the estimated 80 people feared dead in a bus accident were expressed by President Thabo Mbeki and acting transport minister Jeff Radebe.
The Pan Africanist Congress has suspended Limpopo MPL Maxwell Nemadzivhanani for allegedly disrupting the party’s national audit committee on March 23.
Brothers John and Dave Varty won interim relief on Friday in their court case over a controversial tiger project against investors Li Quan and Stuart Bray.
A number of illegal explosive devices were found on a farm belonging to a former military instructor near Warden over the weekend, say eastern Free State police.