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stable and its customers were in the aisles on Monday, despite a weekend announcement that certain products were being withdrawn due to threats of poisoning.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 government has never clearly declared itself against the idea of a basic income grant (BIG), but all the signs are that it would like the clamour for BIG — from trade unions, churches, the NGO sector and the Democratic Alliance — to go away.
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.
The road from Lawley to Lenasia is ordinary: it is cut by a railway track and flanked by a squatter camp and a brick factory. But just past the factory off a dirt road and forgotten by the rest of the world, a crumbling wall serves as informal monument to
an idea that changed the world.
Oom Krisjan is proud that he cut his teeth (so to speak) on the rough-and-tumble of political debate in the Marico, where a meaty fist to the jaw followed by a bottle of Klipdrift to the kop counts as a suave intellectual intervention.
Soweto’s Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital would get a R700-million upgrade, Gauteng health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa said in her budget vote speech on Thursday.
South Africa has emerged as the world’s fastest-growing tourism destination, with 6,4-million tourists visiting last year. This is an increase of 11,1% from the previous year, according to the Ministry of Environmental Affairs and Tourism.
South Africa is a nation of gamblers with more than 70% of its population participating in the national lottery and 19% of the population engaging in casino gambling.
Nearly 10 years after the political settlement that brought a commitment from the new government to gender equality – the ”non-racial, non-sexist Republic of South Africa” as promised in the Constitution – remains deeply patriarchal.
More than 1 300 jobs in the Western Cape construction industry were lost — some of them to Gauteng — in the 12 months to the end of June 2002, Western Cape Premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Thursday.
An East London daily newspaper says it has tracked down what appears to be the real family of the teenager in the centre of a saga that has caught the imagination of the entire country.
An estimated 11-million children younger than 18 were living in poverty last year, according to a study by the Children’s Institute of the University of Cape Town.
Alleged Israeli Mafia member Lior Saad appeared briefly in the Johannesburg High Court on Friday for the murder of diamond merchant Shai Abissar in 1999.
The Democratic Alliance has called for the removal of Mpumalanga health MEC Sibongile Manana following an announcement on Thursday that her department had been placed under curatorship.