The New National Party, which was hit by 17 defections from its ranks in the two week defection period for politicians, has gained its first two defectors.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has now officially beaten the Democratic Alliance (DA) in raiding the smaller parties during the two-week defection period allowing politicians to cross the floor.
Gauteng MPL Temba Sono announced on Tuesday he was leaving the Democratic Alliance to join the new Independent Democrats with former Pan Africanist Congress MP Patricia de Lille.
Gauteng MPL Themba Sono announced on Tuesday he was leaving the Democratic Alliance (DA) to join the new Independent Democrats (ID) with former Pan Africanist Congress MP Patricia de Lille.
The African National Congress (ANC) was first to benefit from the first floor-crossing window period when a Democratic Alliance (DA) member crossed to the ANC in Kwazulu-Natal on Friday morning.
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon says reports that President Thabo Mbeki has urged his Zimbabwean counterpart to end so-called land reform in that country are false, and that the president really said the opposite.
South Africa’s municipalities were owed R24,3-billion nationally in outstanding service tariffs in September last year, according to figures tabled before Parliament’s provincial and local government portfolio committee on Tuesday.
Gauteng finance MEC Jabu Moleketi has confirmed the provincial government’s intentions to intensify its antiretroviral programmes by allocating the health department a lion’s share of the budget.
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/ 18 February 2003
Cape Town’s Table Mountain is emerging as the favourite icon for branding South African tourism, says Environment and Tourism Minister Mohammed Valli Moosa.
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/ 13 February 2003
A man, his daughter and her friend were arrested in Tarlton on the West Rand on Wednesday for allegedly producing counterfeit R5 coins, police said.
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/ 12 February 2003
Gauteng police recovered 23 stolen cars, allegedly at a second-hand car dealership in Benoni and a premises in Bezuidenhout Valley, eastern Johannesburg, police said on Wednesday.
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/ 11 February 2003
Detectives from the Office for Serious Economic Offences arrested a couple in Orange Farm south of Johannesburg on Monday in connection with the illegal sale of low-cost houses in Gauteng.
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/ 10 February 2003
Johannesburg taxi commuters were without transport on Monday as members of Top Six Taxi Management gathered ahead of a planned march in the city centre aimed at highlighting problems relating to the issuing of permits to operators, Metro police said.
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/ 7 February 2003
Preliminary results from a survey of the small, micro and medium enterprise sector in Cape Town, Durban and Gauteng show that Durban is South Africa’s ”surfer’s paradise”.
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/ 4 February 2003
The largest consignment of cocaine ever brought into South Africa by a single courier was seized at Johannesburg International Airport on Monday.
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/ 30 January 2003
Homeowners around South Africa, particularly those situated in vicinities where the numerous Cricket World Cup games are to be held, stand to benefit from the positive exposure to be gained from hosting this high-profile event, according to Andrew Golding, CEO of the Pam Golding Property group (PGP).
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/ 26 January 2003
The death toll in the Sizzlers gay massage parlour massacre where eight men were murdered and two seriously injured earlier this week has risen to nine, say Cape Town police.
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/ 23 January 2003
Sex workers and members of gay and lesbian organisations are expected to attend a memorial service on Saturday for the eight men murdered at Sizzlers, the gay brothel in Sea Point.
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/ 21 January 2003
HIV/Aids was expected to slash 12-million off South Africa’s population growth by 2015, the University of South Africa’s Bureau of Market Research (BMR) said on Monday.
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/ 17 January 2003
South Africans are marginally more pessimistic about this year than they were about 2002, an international survey has found.
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/ 17 January 2003
Dumisani Makhaye must be feeling that sometimes his words can come back to haunt him. The ANC NEC member has been going around telling disgruntled Eastern Cape ANC members to accept the national leadership’s decision to dissolve the provincial structures.
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/ 14 January 2003
The Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) renewed a call for the multi-billion rand Gautrain rapid rail project to be halted, to allow further substantive research into its feasibility, the chamber said in a statement on Tuesday.
Six municipal by-elections are to be held in South Africa on January 22, four in African National Congress strongholds, one in an Inkatha Freedom Party stronghold and another in a more marginal seat vacated by a Democratic Alliance councillor.
While the road death toll since December 1 mounted to 1 236 by Monday, the Democratic Alliance demanded the resignation of Transport Minister Dullah Omar, or his removal from office.
Road accidents had claimed the lives of 1 204 people in South Africa since December 1, Arrive Alive reported on Sunday. However, the figure was expected to rise as some reports from remote police stations were still outstanding.
A man charged with allegedly helping devise a right-wing plot to overthrow the government, was freed on R20 000 bail in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday.
Officials at Boksburg prison, assisted by inmates, foiled an attempted escape by four awaiting-trial prisoners armed with guns and cellphones on Wednesday afternoon, the Department of Correctional Services said.
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/ 28 December 2002
Praise for the 7,2% improvement in the 2002 matric exam results was tempered on Friday by warnings that huge inequalities still existed between South Africa’s nine provinces when it came to education resources.
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/ 13 December 2002
Although all political parties have lost support recently, the African National Congress (ANC) continues to be the dominant party in South Africa, according to the latest Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) survey.
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/ 13 December 2002
Supporters stood at attention and sang the old Transvaal Republic’s anthem as eight alleged rightwingers appeared in the Pretoria Regional Court on Thursday afternoon on charges of high treason, terrorism, and sabotage.
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/ 8 November 2002
The seventh annual Southern African International Film and Television Market (Sithengi) will this year, for the first time, hold a children’s festival, writes Maria Kurian.
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/ 1 November 2002
Kgafela oa Magogodi sees Alexandra through new eyes — those of a tourist.