Since the ban on freebie bags on May 9, many self-help groups have risen to the challenge and developed lucrative small businesses making eco-friendly substitutes.
The statue of former Transvaal president Paul Kruger is to be removed from the Kruger National Park, park authorities said on Monday.
When Nedcor’s hostile takeover attempt of Standard Bank was shot down by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel three years ago, the South African banking group’s long-cherished dream of becoming the region’s biggest bank able to compete with global players seemed all but dead.
Voter lack of interest is bogging down opposition voters more than supporters of the governing African National Congress, according to a poll by Markinor.
The proposed construction of a toll road through one of the country’s last unspoilt wildernesses has raised heated debate.
As awareness of the Aids crisis breaks in Swaziland like a blinding dawn, measures that would have been unthinkable a year ago are now being initiated.
The death of a family member due to Aids is often only the first, and not the worst, ordeal the survivors have to face, an anthropological economist said on Tuesday.
The Gardens for Africa project, introduced by Toyota South Africa in KwaZulu-Natal last year, is proving a great success, and the company has decided to continue support for the programme.
While no country can afford an unfocused or undisciplined young population, the dynamism of youth should be nurtured and responsibly channelled, Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya said on Friday.
Nine long-term prisoners who want to have their own spending money in jail had an urgent application for their case to be heard allowed by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday.
The room occupancy rate and the bed occupancy rate of hotels in South Africa for May 2003 increased by 0,2% and 0,9% respectively, compared with May 2002, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday.
It’s back to the drawingboard for paper giant Mondi after a Durban judge ruled on Wednesday it could not build an incinerator to burn waste and generate steam at its south Durban plant.
The Brand South Africa campaign is, from what Lemmer gathers, meant to make you feel all warm and fuzzy about our country. Why then does it make Oom Krisjan all hot and bothered.
World Population Day, which will be celebrated on Friday, will focus on the youth of South Africa, social development minister Zola Skweyiya said on Monday.
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Sunday handed out certificates to party members in KwaZulu-Natal who remained loyal to him during the floor-crossing window earlier this year.
South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal provincial economic development and tourism Minister Roger Burrows has released the draft Liquor Licencing Bill for public comment and input.
Five of the nine provinces had underspent their HIV/Aids grant allocations for the 2002/2003 financial year.
Next year the Olympics are in Athens, and the lords of the rings are doing their best to mess things up, as per usual.
Two small KwaZulu-Natal communities, including South Africa’s smallest minority group, received the title deeds to their properties, worth about R13,5-million.
Joe Verster, a former head of the apartheid government’s Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB), was arrested by the Scorpions at his Pretoria home on fraud charges, SABC television news reported on Friday.
The delay in establishing the Pondoland National Park in the Eastern Cape is due to opposition from the government in that province, Environment Minister Valli Moosa said on Thursday.
While the government holds up its mother-to-child HIV-transmission prevention programme as the continent’s largest, it is turning into a shambles in many provinces.
The Inkatha Freedom Party in KwaZulu-Natal has resolved to review its working relationship with the African National Congress in the province, ”in the light of the prevailing behaviour of the ANC ministers in the coalition (provincial) government”.
The foundation of mutual respect and trust that constitutes true reconciliation has not yet been laid in South Africa, according to Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
A total of 3 733 vacancies in South African government departments existed as at May 26, said Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi on Tuesday.
Investigations into an alleged property scam uncovered by the Democratic Alliance and Inkatha Freedom Party in KwaZulu-Natal are continuing, and more misspent funds are expected to be recovered, DA leader Tony Leon said on Thursday.
Deputy president Jacob Zuma on Thursday commended the SA Broadcasting Corporation and three KwaZulu-Natal newspapers for promoting multilingualism in South Africa.
The government has never clearly declared itself against the idea of a basic income grant (BIG), but all the signs are that it would like the clamour for BIG — from trade unions, churches, the NGO sector and the Democratic Alliance — to go away.
Taiwanese investment in South Africa was increasing for the first time since South Africa broke diplomatic ties with the East Asian state in January 1998, a seminar on Taiwanese investment in southern Africa heard on Thursday.
South African sugarcane farmers are concerned about the recent move by Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza to introduce an amendment to the Restitution of Land Rights Act, South African Cane Growers chairperson Bruce Galloway said in a speech on Wednesday.
Unemployment has become a human crisis told in cold statistics. The official unemployment rate was 29,4% in February last year. In reality, it was about 40% — the official figure leaves out people too demoralised to get on another taxi, or make another call from the local tickey-box.
The great GDP myth
President Thabo Mbeki drew on Mahatma Gandhi for inspiration on Friday night in a new call for an end to corruption and dishonesty, which he said prejudiced the poor.