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.
The type of tripartite alliance the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) envisioned for South Africa did not yet exist, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Wednesday.
Traditional leaders on Wednesday rejected the government’s latest proposals on traditional leadership and accused the government of using them ”as instruments of control”.
All of the runners who took part in the Blue IQ Joburg City Challenge road race on Sunday and who did not receive their T-shirts and medals can collect them next month, the race organisers promised on Monday.
What happened to South Africa’s avant-garde? Following the recent New Music Indaba, Mary Rörich contemplates the relevance of international musical styles in cotemporary South Africa.
Gauteng has notched up the highest figure in South Africa for abandoned babies, accounting for 268 of the 409 babies abandoned nationally last year, according to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
Maputo’s crocks gave way to street-loads of fancy sedans last week. The World Bank’s favourite economy is doing so well? Not really.
The Gauteng provincial government said on Tuesday that it has committed R238-million to infrastructural development in Newtown in order to attract private sector investment to the area.
As awareness of the Aids crisis breaks in Swaziland like a blinding dawn, measures that would have been unthinkable a year ago are now being initiated.
A total of about 7 000 women around the country had received the anti-retroviral drug nevirapine at State hospitals and clinics by December last year, according to South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
South Africa’s nine provinces have notched up a steadily improved performance in spending their nationally allocated HIV/Aids conditional grants during the last three financial years, according to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.