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.
World Population Day, which will be celebrated on Friday, will focus on the youth of South Africa, social development minister Zola Skweyiya said on Monday.
Five of the nine provinces had underspent their HIV/Aids grant allocations for the 2002/2003 financial year.
A free Northern Sotho-English dictionary is now available on the internet, thanks to four people in Pretoria who are voluntarily giving their time and dipping into their own pockets to make it possible.
The final blood tests of the Pick ‘n Pay shopper who had eaten a sardine have been released, with the South African Police Service (SAPS) confirming that the tests have detected traces of cyanide. The woman had shown no physical side effects and had returned home on Sunday afternoon.
Pick ‘n Pay’s shares remained stable and its customers were in the aisles on Monday, despite a weekend announcement that certain products were being withdrawn due to threats of poisoning.
Supermarket chain, Pick ‘n Pay, has been the victim of an extortion campaign for about the last seven weeks, the company said on Sunday. Chief executive Sean Summers said various actions and threats had been levelled against Pick ‘n Pay and its customers, but did not say what the extortionist was demanding.
About 70% of Pan Africanist Congress members felt the party’s recent leadership election was flawed, says former general secretary Thami ka Plaatjie.
As the verbal fisticuffs between Thabo Mbeki and Tony Leon last week showed, South Africa has not put its race dilemmas to bed. This week we kick off a race debate to get the dinner-table talk and the whispers into the open.
Two stories in the news this week had the manne shaking their heads about people in public service being overzealous in the execution of their duties.
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.
South Africa is proof that the image of Africa so often portrayed as beset with chaos and failure is a travesty of the truth, French Foreign Minister Dominique De Villepin said on Thursday.
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.
Gauteng’s contribution to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose by 1,3% between 1995 and 2002 after the provincial economy grew by an average of 3,3% during that period, the Gauteng government said on Tuesday.
Police in Zimbabwe have arrested three men in connection with the murder of a South African tourist Conan Thomas at Hillside Dams in Bulawayo on Sunday.
The South African government had learned with ”shock” of the murder of a South African student on holiday in Zimbabwe, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Monday.
Here in the Groot Marico there’s a grand tradition of storytelling. You don’t even need a lekker campfire to warm to your theme – just make sure the old stone jug isn’t too far away.
A total of 3 733 vacancies in South African government departments existed as at May 26, said Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi on Tuesday.
This weekend legendary musician Louis Moholo takes Gauteng by storm. Tebogo Alexander reports.
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.