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/ 11 October 2002
The visdorpie awoke to the thundering sound of tons of prime bull on the hoof on Tuesday, as dozens of NNP politicians stampeded across the floor to join the ANC. The massive defections tilted the balance of power away from the DA and left Tony Leon as a notch in Marthinus van Schalkwyk’s bedpost.
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/ 20 September 2002
The Cabinet’s April 17 statement on HIV/Aids policy — widely hailed as a crucial change of heart — is looking increasingly threadbare. Was it, as some maintain, merely a tactical manoeuvre to deflect international condemnation in advance of the G8 meeting in Canada.
The government’s websites are a source of constant amusement to the manne at the Dorsbult, and a rich source for material for this column. But sometimes the gems are buried. Take a tender announcement from the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology last week.
Oom Krisjan has noticed that those who kept the red flag flying here have been rather quiet of late. In fact, there’s been a suspicion that they’ve all turned into creditcard-carrying communists, what with central committee member Jeff Radebe being in the vanguard of the privatisation.
Five boys are believed to have been murdered after a traditional initiation ceremony near Heidelberg on Gauteng’s East Rand, police said on Tuesday.
A letter from IFP Youth Brigade national organiser PC Mashego to the manager of Standard Bank’s Simmonds Street (Jozi) branch was inexplicably delivered to the Dorsbult Bar…
Last week we erroneously reported that the African National Congress called for HIV/Aids to be declared a notifiable disease.
Being a king is a tough task and you can’t even quit. A quick glance through history shows there are some awful ways to lose your job — most often by losing your head. But in the olden days no one questioned what you wanted to do.
ACCLAIMED South African artist Father Frans Claerhout is causing a furore in
art circles after revealing to a Sunday newspaper that hundreds of his
paintings are forgeries.
Gay men receive little attention in sexual health and HIV/Aids programmes even though there is a high risk of HIV infection.
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 […]
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.
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.
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.”
Over the last 10 days around 1 000 people, aged between three weeks and 95 years, have climbed — or been carried up — mountains across South Africa as part of a countrywide celebration of the International Year of the Mountain.
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.
The PAC wanted Africa’s youth to be assisted with ”genuine liberation”, PAC deputy leader Motsoko Pheko said in Gauteng on Sunday.
A private school in Randburg, Gauteng, on Monday strongly condemned the government’s recent published draft policy banning random drug testing and searches at schools.
A provincial police task team in Gauteng has been appointed to investigate a series of computer thefts from business premises.
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has played down the row over the United States’ delay in issuing a visa to mining boss Tokyo Sexwale.
Contrary to popular belief, South Africans were satisfied with the level of service they received from local banks.