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/ 9 September 2003
The New National Party has renewed its call for an amnesty for people to hand in illegal firearms, saying ”rather sooner than later”. Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula has said it remained the government’s intention to reduce the number of firearms in the country, and to institute efficient regulations regarding gun ownership.
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/ 5 September 2003
The Scorpions seized assets from nine premises in early morning raids throughout South Africa on Wednesday, the investigative unit reported.
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/ 3 September 2003
There were 276 022 South Africans ”on the run” from the police at the end of April this year, according to figures provided by Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
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/ 1 September 2003
The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is to release the findings of a two-year long investigation into human rights conditions on farms.
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/ 1 September 2003
The government’s claim that South Africa was not a crime capital and compared favourably with the rest of the world is refuted by United States crime figures, says official opposition chief whip Douglas Gibson.
Zuma’s pals in the press, Saddam’s lesser known offspring, the cow cops of India and Bristow-Bovey’s new book cover. Oom Krisjan puts that in his pipe and smokes it.
I have a statement to make — Limpopo is lovely. And now, a sad admission — I have only just completed my first proper visit, after 12 years of living in South Africa. Sharon van Wyk appeals to adventurous holidaymakers to try it out for themselves.
The wind whipped at my exposed ears as I tried to focus on the diminutive dynamo that is SA Tourism CEO Cheryl Carolus. All around me fellow hacks and travel fundis shivered miserably in the bitter Jo’burg morning. Welcome to the launch of Tourism Month and the concrete cold of SA Tourism’s head office in Illovo.
The Minister of Social Development Dr Zola Skweyiya has expressed shock and concern about the disappearance of a teenager from a government place of safety 24 days ago. The teeenager had apparently been forced to have sex with a dog.
The Gauteng safety and liaison department is investigating more than 736 cases of corruption involving members of the SA Police Service, MEC Nomvula Mokonyane said on Tuesday.
Like a slumbering giant waking up to its potential, the North West province is aggressively marketing itself as a premier tourist destination for jaded domestic travellers and as a prime location for overseas tourists.
Whoever wins in the bid for the New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) assets, consolidation of the media sector looks imminent, writes <i>Media Weekly</i>’s Kevin Bloom.
The Johannesburg Housing Company launched a R98-million, 650-unit housing development in Johannesburg’s inner-city suburb of Newtown with a sod-turning ceremony on Thursday. Located on vacant land at the foot of the new Mandela Bridge, the development is a key component of Jo’burg’s inner-city regeneration plan.
The white dust that greeted people in the greater Johannesburg area on Tuesday morning might be from as far as the Kalahari desert, the Witwatersrand University’s School of Geoscience said.
The Pretoria High Court dismissed on Tuesday a special plea by 13 of the 22 Boeremag treason trialists that the court had no jurisdiction over them. Seventeen of the 22 trialists after the dismissal proceeded to question the integrity of chief prosecutor Paul Fick and asked for his recusal from the case.
The government denied on Tuesday that President Thabo Mbeki had ordered the National Intelligence Agency to probe the collapse of a marquee on Women’s Day. The president was on a stage erected for a function at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Saturday when the tent roof caved in.
Woman paralysed in marquee collapse
The Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital will run out of meat this week as a result of non-payment to their meat supplier, the Democratic Alliance Gauteng Health spokesman Jack Bloom said on Sunday.
A 37-year-old woman from the West Rand who was injured when a marquee collapsed at a Women’s Day function in Pretoria on Saturday has been paralysed, Muelmed Hospital in Pretoria said on Sunday.
Women’s Day stage collapses on Mbeki
President Thabo Mbeki and other dignitaries escaped injury when a tent roof caved in on them during National Women’s Day celebrations. The Department of Labour has issued a prohibition notice against the company that erected the stage.
The number of warrants of arrest issued for maintenance defaulters dropped from 61 499 in 2000 for all nine provinces in South Africa to 53 531 in 2001, according to figures released to Parliament by Justice Minister Penuell Maduna.
Construction of tracks for the Gautrain will start in the middle of 2004, and the entire project must be completed within five years, senior Gauteng government officials said on Thursday.
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) wants to have new regulations governing the proposed mandatory national 10-digit dialling system published by December, because of a looming shortage of telephone numbers in the country.
Women Against Child Abuse on Tuesday called on the justice system to prevent abused children from having to testify in court.
There will be no retrenchment of excess public service staff before June next year, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Monday.
In some parts of South Africa half of all pregnant women are infected with HIV, the first South African Aids conference heard in Durban on Monday.
Over three-quarters of South Africa’s municipalities had not submitted financial statements for the 2001/02 financial year by September last year, in contravention of legislation requiring they do so.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Thursday called on other opposition parties to join the DA in a ”coalition for change” in South Africa, ahead of next year’s general election.
A doctor and three senior nurses from Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital, as well as two Aids activists, symbolically tied themselves together with a rope in front of the national health department’s head office in Pretoria on Wednesday.
Ex-president Nelson Mandela’s body should be embalmed after his death and displayed in a glass cage at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, according to the African National Congress’s deputy leader at the Port Elizabeth metropole, Mike Xego.
The government was attacked on all fronts on Wednesday on issues pertaining to traditional leadership, but some government officials tried to downplay the rift between the state and the chiefs.
The Democratic Alliance continued pushing the Ministry of Safety and Security on Wednesday for the release of crime statistics on a more regular basis than once annually.