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.
Efforts by the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) to deliver a memorandum to the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers Union (Ceppwawu) were thwarted when they were refused entry to the building in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
The late African National Congress struggle hero Walter Sisulu was buried in Croesus Cemetery in Newclare, Johannesburg on Saturday, following a moving ceremony at Orlando Stadium in Soweto.
Popular Yfm and club DJ Fana ”Khabzela” Khaba announced on the Gauteng station’s breakfast show on Friday morning that he is HIV-positive.
A group of workers protested at the Ga-Rankuwa hospital, north-west of Pretoria, on Thursday against its renaming after the late Dr George Mukhari.
The Legal Aid Board is processing applications for assistance from 23 members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation due to go on trial for alleged treason and terrorism later this month.
The significant drop in the number of strikes in South Africa in the past year is in part a reflection of the success of labour legislation passed since 1994 that encourages the resolution of disputes through dialogue and discussion.
The Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) lashed out at the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Tuesday over a decision to hold joint Workers’ Day celebrations with the Gauteng provincial government.
South Africans celebrated Freedom Day on Sunday with President Thabo Mbeki saying the government would continue carrying out its programmes to fight HIV/Aids.
There’s not many in the Dorsbult that call a spade a gardening implement, but the changing nature of language is a topic often discussed over a couple of dops. What got the Klippies flowing this week was an article in The New York Times –one bound to warm the shallows of Manto’s heart.
The government must immediately carry out the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the treatment of mothers living with HIV and Aids, as well as their newly born babies, according to a SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) report.
The Limpopo province has the lowest concentration of doctors in South Africa, with just 9,5 for every 100 000 of the population, according to figures released by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
This year’s Intergovernmental Fiscal Review is in key respects a good news story. It throws into relief the significant progress in budgeting, spending and financial management by our nine provinces, a vital agency of poverty alleviation, in the past four years.
The Eastern Cape city of East London was gearing up to become the hub of the automotive industry in South Africa, the area’s Industrial Development Zone Corporation said on Tuesday.
Pam Golding Properties (PGP), South Africa’s largest residential property sales company by turnover, has recorded record annual sales of R6,521-billion rand for the financial year.
A total of 25 777 cases of drunk driving were reported in 2001, of which 8 675 involved accidents, according to Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
Light drizzle covered Duiwelskloof in the Limpopo province for much of Friday morning as Makobi Modjadji was inaugurated as the new Rain Queen of the Balobedu people.
All this floor-crossing has the manne at the Dorsbult quite confused. In fact we spent so much time redrawing our colour-coded diagram of the National Assembly that Oom Krisjan had no time to remark on the movements last week.
Treatment Action Campaign founder member Edward Mavundla, who died on Wednesday an hour before Aids activists arrived to visit him, made a deathbed call for world support for the organisation.
The pace of housing delivery appears to be slowing down, according to the Intergovernmental Fiscal Review (IGFR), released on Tuesday.
A possible case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) — which has killed more than 100 people worldwide — has been identified in Pretoria, the Gauteng health department and Network Healthcare Holdings (Netcare) said on Monday night.
In the heart of the mountains near Duiwelskloof, the Balobedu people are preparing to crown a new queen. Makobo Modjadji, the grand-daughter of Modjadji V, has been
named as the successor to the Rain Queen, who died two years ago.