The trucking industry, whose rates in the spread of HIV/Aids in Southern Africa are among the worst, is being targeted.
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/ 28 February 2002
The UN International Narcotics Control Board says that the number of people injecting heroin in SA has risen by 40% over the past three years.
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/ 12 January 2002
Police raided the homes of several rightwingers on Friday in the wake of recent bombings blamed on the far right and threats of more violence.
Mintek ? one of the leading mining technology companies in South Africa ? is embarking on a programme to help rectify the problem of poor teaching and results in science, engineering and technology (SET) at secondary schools by “adopting” the Kwadeda Ngendlale high school in Zola North, Soweto. A list of more than 100 schools […]
The recent rash of bombings in Gauteng reflected rising discontent among Afrikaners, the Afrikaner Group of 63 said on Thursday.
Since 1994, the Gauteng government has spent about R5-billion to provide housing for more than 2,5-million people in the province.
The government had reversed its ban on a Social Movements Indaba march from Alexandra township to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Sandton on Saturday, the SMI said in a statement on Wednesday.
The founder of the well-known youth care organisation, Boys Town, has died.
A senior member of the right-wing group, the Boeremag, will appear on Tuesday in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court to face charges of terrorism, high treason and sabotage
The Gauteng social services department has blamed the boat company at Zoo Lake for the drowning of two children at a Children’s Day festival last year, but the compnay says the department is just looking for a scapegoat.
Cabinet has decided to reduce the number of higher education institutions from 36 to 21, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Thursday.
MPs and activists opposed to abortion on Tuesday complained that two-day public hearings in Parliament on the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOP Act) was biased and excluded those who did not agree with it.
The Gauteng health department is urging parents in local communities to get youths at initiation schools in the rugged hills around Heidelberg to come home.
The Johannesburg CBD has begun feeling the effects of the municipal workers’ strike, with most of the city’s busiest streets covered in a sea of rubbish on Wednesday morning.
The Limpopo provincial government had by Friday closed down a total of eight illegal initiation schools after a boy from the Mokgolobotho village initiation school died last weekend.
The African National Congress and the New National Party announced moves to cement their co-operation pact on Saturday in apparent anticipation of them jointly taking control of a number of municipal councils.
South African retail group Edcon said on Monday it would acquire Elixir Marketing for an undisclosed amount, boosting its plans to dominate in discount and enhance its exposure to over 20-million consumers.
A bomb exploded at the Umtamvuna bridge near the Wild Coast Sun casino and hotel complex on the border between the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday
The Sunday Times has published pictures of six men wanted in connection with a series of bombs in Gauteng and Mpumalanga last week.
Seven Congress of South African Students (Cosas) leaders have been barred from entering any public school in Gauteng but those still learning will be allowed to continue with their studies.
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration said on Friday it would soon set up a meeting between striking municipal workers and their employer.
President Thabo Mbeki made a strong call on Friday night for all South Africans to embrace transformation.
A bomb blast damaged the offices of the police’s serious and violent crimes unit in Cape Town on Saturday night, but no deaths or injuries were caused.
The largest ever United Nations gathering takes place in South Africa just days before the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
The African National Congress in Gauteng on Sunday voiced its support for Education MEC Ignatius Jacobs’ decision to overturn the expulsion of Deputy Mineral and Energy Minister Susan Shabangu’s son from Sunward Park High School.
Nelson Mandela has condemned ”in the strongest terms” the behaviour of Cosas during a protest march in Johannesburg last Friday.
Police have arrested five of the six men wanted in connection with October’s Soweto and Bronkhorstpruit bombings and unearthed explosives ”clearly designed to kill”, a statement said on Wednesday.
The Scorpions arrested two men, one a police inspector, in connection with Road Accident Fund (RAF) fraud on Wednesday.
Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa and the provincial executive council on Wednesday expressed outrage at the explosions which rocked Soweto overnight killing a woman.
The Johannesburg Hospital is conducting an audit of all operations performed by Dr Wynne Lieberthal at its children’s spinal unit, to determine any potential negligence.
A young attorney was arrested in Alberton on Thursday morning for her alleged involvement in fraudulent claims totalling R2-million from the Road Accident Fund (RAF).
Two lawyers and five others were arrested in Gauteng on Tuesday for allegedly running an investment scam that promised ”the black empowerment opportunity of a lifetime.”