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/ 1 December 2006
You won’t find a recipe for pap in Anna Trapido and Coco Fathi Reinarhz’s new cookbook, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 29 November 2006
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The Health Department is increasing access to HIV/Aids prevention, care and treatment services, it said ahead of Friday’s World Aids Day. About 11 000 patients are joining the antiretroviral programme every month, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said in a statement on Wednesday.
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/ 29 November 2006
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Most people were not protecting themselves against HIV/Aids even though they knew of the dangers, a Gauteng Aids expert said on Tuesday. ”Now is the time to turn our thinking and talking into joint and practical action to address the challenge of HIV and Aids,” said Dr Liz Floyd, director of the Gauteng health department’s Aids unit.
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/ 28 November 2006
Police officers have pinned down the whereabouts of C-Max escapee Annanias Mathe using cellphone records, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday. It is believed the 29-year-old Mozambican national has not crossed the border and is still in Gauteng.
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/ 26 November 2006
The four-day Supersport Series match pitting the Lions against the Dolphins in Pietermaritzburg remained balanced in favour of the Lions, who had 266 runs to the good, after three days on Saturday, with four wickets standing. The two sides battled it out in weather that ranged from reasonably bright to rain showers.
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/ 26 November 2006
Gauteng minister of community safety Firoz Cachalia launched the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children campaign in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, on Saturday. Marches against violence and abuse took place in Johannesburg — where participants wore stilettos — and Cape Town.
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/ 25 November 2006
Three Gauteng men were arrested on Saturday for firing shots at the funeral in Khuma, North West, of a robber involved in a cash-in-transit heist. The arrests came shortly before President Thabo Mbeki was due to hold an imbizo (meeting), police said.
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/ 24 November 2006
The trial of the two men implicated in the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) hoax e-mail saga was postponed in the Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria on Friday so a third accused could be added. Software salesperson Muziwendoda Kunene and NIA manager for electronic surveillance Funokwakhe Madladla are accused of fraud relating to hoax e-mails.
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/ 24 November 2006
Protesters against crime called on the government to offer tax deductions for money spent on security in a memorandum handed to a Gauteng safety and security representative in Johannesburg on Friday. Lorraine Maisel, founder of the organisation Angry About Crime, handed the memorandum to Ian Robertson.
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/ 24 November 2006
Police in Gauteng are planning an offensive against crime over the festive season. Preparation includes gathering information on what syndicates are planning and updating their list of the most wanted criminals, said police spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman.
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/ 24 November 2006
In football, teams are not given nicknames such as ”Glamour Boys” and ”Bold and the Beautiful” for fun. They are awarded such praise names because of their ability to outplay the opposition at all times. But victory often depends not just on the quality of the first-choice line-up, but on the balance and depth of the squad — giving a team the ability to rise from the dead, if you like.
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/ 23 November 2006
A total of 303 cases of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) have been confirmed across the country, the Department of Health said on Thursday. ”They are in the hospitals, they are on treatment. Some of them have died,” said the department’s head of TB, Dr Lindiwe Mvusi. Mvusi did not have details at hand of how many had died.
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/ 22 November 2006
South Africa’s embattled health minister received a rare public boost on Wednesday when hundreds of traditional healers marched in Johannesburg to support her natural treatments for HIV/Aids. Several hundred healers, many wrapped in red cloaks and headscarves, praised Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
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/ 22 November 2006
Over five million South African pupils and 13Â 000 schools will be exempt from school fees from January, the Department of Education said on Wednesday. ”The Department of Education wishes to announce that all the nine provincial departments of education have submitted their lists of the number of learners and schools [that] would benefit,” the department said in a statement.
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/ 22 November 2006
It will be an unlikely scenario at Green Point stadium on Wednesday night when Moroka Swallows carry the torch for the dimmed fortunes of Soweto’s glamour clubs as they face Ajax Cape Town in the last of the Telkom Knockout quarterfinals. With Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs already eliminated from the tournament, Swallows will be out to swoop into the semifinals.
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/ 22 November 2006
The township residential property market is showing more vibrancy than that of formerly white suburbs, media reports said on Wednesday. First National Bank Home Loans CEO Ed Grondel said the township market is performing better than the national metropolitan market in more than one respect.
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/ 21 November 2006
One in six Gauteng adults, or over a million people, run small businesses and the growing diverse sector accounts for 35% of the province’s employment a survey has found, the FinMark Trust said on Tuesday. The survey, commissioned by the Gauteng Enterprise Propeller and the FinMark Trust, aimed at accurate information and better understanding about the small-business sector.
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/ 21 November 2006
The Gauteng government will be considering a ”provincial tax” to ease pressure on resources from inter-provincial migration, provincial minister of finance and economic affairs Paul Mashatile announced on Tuesday. A feasibility study has already been completed and will soon go to the executive council for deliberations, he said in tabling his medium-term budget policy statement.
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/ 18 November 2006
Police would not comment on reports on Friday that a Johannesburg police commissioner had been arrested in connection the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble. National police spokesperson Sally de Beer would also not comment on a report, in the <i>Star</i> newspaper, that the former Hell’s Angels biker suspected of killing Kebble had vanished.
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/ 17 November 2006
A former Hell’s Angels biker who, it is believed, killed mining magnate Brett Kebble last October, has vanished, media reports said on Friday. Also, a Johannesburg police commissioner has apparently been arrested in connection with Glenn Agliotti, the businessman arrested on Thursday morning in connection with the murder.
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/ 17 November 2006
The Gauteng Cricket Board announced on Friday that it would take firm action against any spectator guilty of racial abuse during the tours by India and Pakistan. Chief executive Alan Kourie said that following incidents of racial abuse reported from Australia, the board had decided to pay careful attention to the situation at matches at the Wanderers.
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/ 17 November 2006
A grade eight pupil is to appear in the Frankfort Magistrate’s Court on Friday for allegedly stabbing a classmate, Free State police said. Following the incident on Tuesday at 8am, police arrested an 18-year-old pupil at the Reseng Thabo High School in Tweeling, said Captain Hennie Labuschagne. The victim was in the classroom together with his classmates.
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/ 16 November 2006
The Scorpions on Wednesday night arrested a prominent businessman in connection with the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble in September last year, the elite unit said on Thursday. Talk Radio 702 named the suspect as Glenn Agliotti, a friend of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi and fixer for Kebble.
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/ 15 November 2006
"With a little bit of vision, a little bit of money, something new is beginning to emerge [in the inner city]," said Lael Bethlehem, the chief executive officer of the Johannesburg Development Agency, at Constitution Hill on Monday. Constitution Hill is located at the edge of Hillbrow, one of the most derelict areas in central Johannesburg.
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/ 15 November 2006
Following the recent announcement by the Department of Health on the revised dispensing fee, South African retailer Pick ‘n Pay announced on Wednesday that all medicine prices in its pharmacies will remain at the current levels until the end of this year.
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/ 14 November 2006
A 17-year-old pupil was in a serious but stable condition in hospital after he was stabbed at his school in Nyanga on Tuesday, Cape Town police said. The boy was in a classroom at Oscar Mpetha High when two youths stormed in at 10.15am and stabbed him in the head and back, Captain Randall Stoffels said. Two teenagers were arrested.
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/ 13 November 2006
”I am going to charge you with the murder of that dead person.” With these words Superintendent Ngubane of the Booysens police station turned what had been just another dreary encounter with dysfunctional police into a full-on fight over the state of policing in Gauteng. I am a Quaker and on Friday evening, November 3, I was attending a meeting in Rosettenville, writes Justine White.
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/ 9 November 2006
An unprotected strike by health workers in Mpumalanga has been replaced by lunch-time pickets, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) said on Thursday. Provincial secretary December Manana said Nehawu met its members to report back on a meeting with Mpumalanga Premier Thabang Makwetla.
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/ 9 November 2006
The Director General of Correctional Services, Linda Mti, has resigned, a government statement said on Thursday. It said the national commissioner quit at the beginning of the month. Johannesburg police on Tuesday confirmed that Mti had recently been arrested for drunken driving.
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/ 8 November 2006
The smell of petrol lingering around the Blaauwpan Dam, east of Johannesburg, might remain for days while a layer of fuel on the dam’s surface is causing "catastrophic" environmental hazards, according to conservationists. More than a million litres of aviation fuel is said to have leaked from OR Tambo International Airport on Tuesday.
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/ 8 November 2006
The Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) could face charges of criminal neglect after an aviation fuel leak at OR Tambo International Airport, Beeld reported on Wednesday. It said conservation organisations described Tuesday’s spill — the third since July last year — as an environmental disaster.
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/ 6 November 2006
While President Thabo Mbeki will only give up his Union Buildings office in 2009, the next president will effectively be chosen in just over a year’s time at the ANC’s watershed elective conference in Polokwane, Limpopo. How will it happen? And how are the cards stacked? Zukile Majova and Mbuyisi Mgibisa investigated to bring you this exclusive report, taking you into the mechanics of an elective conference.