About 150 doctors and nurses picketed at Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital in Soweto on Friday in support of a treatment plan for Aids patients, a Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) spokesperson said.
The Cricket World Cup held earlier this year had a number of positive spin-offs for black economic empowerment, the Department of Trade and Industry said on Wednesday.
Three of the four men accused of murdering a son of the KwaZulu-Natal social services and development MEC earlier this year, appeared briefly in the Mtubatuba Circuit Court on Monday, police reported.
If you are one of those people who will only touch a fish if it is deep fried with a sprig of parsley on top, you would not be interested in KwaZulu-Natal’s sardine run, which has just begun.
Poor road conditions added an estimated R3,8-billion to transport costs in South Africa annually, the SA National Consumer Union heard on Friday.
Thousands of Iscor employees would march to the company’s head office in Pretoria on Friday to demand a wage increase, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said on Thursday.
The United Democratic Movement appealed to the government on Tuesday to take urgent action to restrict the ”easy access” to dangerous weapons, especially guns, in schools.
An estimated 11-million children younger than 18 were living in poverty last year, according to a study by the Children’s Institute of the University of Cape Town.
South Africa’s infant mortality rate is considerably higher than many other countries which fall into the same income category and even higher than many countries that fall into a lower income group.
"Our lives will never be the same," said Paul Lebepe, the principal of a rural high school in South Africa’s northern Limpopo province, whose students are benefiting from a new corporate sponsored computer centre.
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) wants to resume building additional chambers for the House of Traditional leaders in KwaZulu-Natal despite objections from the African National Congress (ANC), which argues that the vacant, former homeland legislature building in Ulundi could be used instead.
Most of the Dorsbult’s manne over 35 remember a series of film (ja, before TV) ads about the ”little grey man”. Everyone loved the ads, but the campaign proved an absolute nightmare for the brand of deodorant it was intended to sell. After all, who wants to appear to be a little grey man by buying it? And, can you imagine what it would do to your ego if your partner bought it for you?
The rand’s strength had forced eight companies in KwaZulu-Natal to close shop, and many more could follow due to increasing export costs, the SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) said on Tuesday.
Lawyers who have brought class-action suits against international companies in a bid to win reparations for victims of apartheid in South Africa said on Tuesday they could suspend legal action as a result of a church mediation bid.
The Legal Aid Board is processing applications for assistance from 23 members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation due to go on trial for alleged treason and terrorism later this month.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has nominated New National Party (NNP) member Freddy Adams to be one of its representatives in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) for the Western Cape.
According to the Medical Research Council, 40% of deaths in 2000 of those between the ages of 15 and 49 were Aids-related. Each year, the percentage increases as the epidemic matures. But communities are still not talking about HIV and Aids.
Senior African National Congress members Dumisani Makhaye and Mike Mabuyakulu were restored to the KwaZulu-Natal government on Wednesday as the MECs for agriculture and public works respectively, after the second stand-off this year between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party.
The Limpopo province has the lowest concentration of doctors in South Africa, with just 9,5 for every 100 000 of the population, according to figures released by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
After delivering an impressive set of results, supermarket group Pick ‘n Pay showed its intentions to broaden its horizons within and beyond South Africa’s borders.
Tensions in KwaZulu-Natal eased on Wednesday when premier Lionel Mtshali agreed to accept a ”disrespectful” African National Congress MEC back into his cabinet.
The African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party are unlikely to win a clear majority on their own in next year’s general election. Both parties, against the will of many of their members, will have to start negotiating with each other
South African President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday ruled out granting a general amnesty to perpetrators of gross human rights violations during the apartheid era.
The Eastern Cape city of East London was gearing up to become the hub of the automotive industry in South Africa, the area’s Industrial Development Zone Corporation said on Tuesday.
Pam Golding Properties (PGP), South Africa’s largest residential property sales company by turnover, has recorded record annual sales of R6,521-billion rand for the financial year.
The African National Congress (ANC) on Monday rejected KwaZulu-Natal premier Lionel Mtshali’s offer of a cabinet reshuffle saying it was a gross insult to the party.
Mtshali bows to ANC demands
A total of 25 777 cases of drunk driving were reported in 2001, of which 8 675 involved accidents, according to Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali agreed on Monday to give back two seats in his provincial cabinet to the African National Congress in a bid to end the latest row between the ANC and Mtshali’s Inkatha Freedom Party.
All this floor-crossing has the manne at the Dorsbult quite confused. In fact we spent so much time redrawing our colour-coded diagram of the National Assembly that Oom Krisjan had no time to remark on the movements last week.
Embattled KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali has refused to cave in to demands by the African National Congress (ANC) to incorporate three of its members into his provincial cabinet after the power balance in the provincial legislature shifted in its favour.
The pace of housing delivery appears to be slowing down, according to the Intergovernmental Fiscal Review (IGFR), released on Tuesday.
A range of politicians has crossed the floor to join or start new political homes. On radio talk shows and on the letters pages of newspapers, they are not floor-crossers, but double-crossers.