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SOUTH African Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said that the country’s final telecoms policy plan would be released within weeks and would be little changed from a draft plan. “I don’t think we will have a very great, fundamental difference,” Matsepe-Casaburri told reporters. The minister said the government was looking at all public submissions on the […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has given the go-ahead for South Africa to begin implementing a massive programme to provide free anti-retrovirals and milk powder to HIV-positive pregnant women to retard the transmission of the virus to babies. In a dramatic move, the government, while not officially changing its policy stance on the treatment of HIV/Aids, is […]

Watching Saturday’s Currie Cup rugby final between Western Province and the Blue Bulls at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria is sure to leave one with the feeling of just alighting from a time machine. The Bulls, or Northern Transvaal as they were then called, and Province last sized each other up in a Currie Cup final […]