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A DISTRAUGHT Eastern Cape family is suing the provincial blood transfusion service and a doctor at a public hospital after their child was allegedly given a transfusion without their consent – and the blood was contaminated with HIV. The family’s lawyer, Bantu Njamela, claims the one-year-old child was infected with the virus after a blood […]

FORMER SAA chief executive Coleman Andrews has come out swinging, accusing Minister of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe of inaccuracy in his pronouncements on his salary package and tenure at the airline. “…Reading through the news release of June 13 2001 by the minister of public enterprises on the controversy surrounding SAA, I was struck by […]

WOUTER Basson, dubbed ?Dr Death? was on Monday acquitted on 15 out of 61 charges ranging from murder and fraud to drug trafficking. Basson will still have to answer to 46 other charges ranging from murder and fraud. Basson was acquitted during a brief hearing on Monday in the Pretoria High Court and the judge […]

AN angry snub by President Thabo Mbeki, who put his hand in the face of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela when she tried to greet him at a Youth Day celebration this weekend was on Sunday slammed by opposition parties. The incident happened at Soweto’s Orlando Stadium, southwest of Johannesburg, on Saturday where Mbeki was due to address […]

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 […]