The African National Congress’ leadership will meet with the Inkatha Freedom Party on Tuesday to get clarity on why two ANC MECs were sacked from the KwaZulu-Natal cabinet.
The salvage team on the grounded Jolly Rubino off the northern Kwazulu-Natal coast had to be evacuated on Wednesday due to the intensifying fire on board, Smit Salvage said.
Police have arrested five of the six men wanted in connection with October’s Soweto and Bronkhorstpruit bombings and unearthed explosives ”clearly designed to kill”, a statement said on Wednesday.
The Jolly Rubino, the burning ship stuck on a sandbank off the ecologically sensitive St Lucia wetland and estuary in KwaZulu-Natal, is showing signs off breaking up, a KZN Wildlife official said.
Following Friday’s announcement that South African Bali blast victims Craig Harty and Godfrey Fitz were officially presumed dead, no further details could be released on the status of South Africans who remained on the island.
THE Constitutional Court has reserved judgement in the State’s appeal against a Pretoria High Court order that it roll out its antiretroviral programmes.
The SA Municipal Workers’ nation-wide strike got into full swing on Tuesday despite threats of disciplinary action by some municipalities in the Free State, Samwu claimed.
IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi says that despite rising tension between his organisation and the ANC, he and President Thabo Mbeki have yet to meet at party-to-party level to resolve differences.
The wife of Ladysmith Black Mambazo leader Joseph Shabalala was shot and killed and Shabalala himself wounded at his Durban home on Wednesday night, KwaZulu-Natal police reported.
Pietermaritzburg is set to be the sole seat of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, despite opposition from the Inkatha Freedom.
The establishment of Sentech’s corporate social investment unit late last year and the appointment of Maureen Mphatsoe as manager, signals the company’s commitment to provide technical and other support for the burgeoning information and communication sector
Ice Station Johannesburg, an accredited parallel event to the World Summit for Sustainable Development, will host an art exhibition called ”Fantastic Rubbish”.
South Africa’s population rose by an average of
657 532 annually between 1996 and 2002, bringing the total figure from 42-million in 1996 to 46-million in 2002.
A 31-year-old man was arrested in Tsakane near Boksburg on Monday for allegedly selling his 18-day-old baby.
The African National Congress (ANC) gained an overall majority in eThekwini municipality on Tuesday when six councillors took advantage of the floor-crossing legislation to join it.
Poet, playwright and song-writer Mbongeni Ngema said he stood by the issues raised in his controversial song ”AmaNdiya”, about the oppression of blacks by Indians.
Three political parties on Monday called on the Justice Department to release the details of the 33 prisoners who were granted a presidential pardon over the weekend.
The ANC said it had lost one of its stalwarts, Comrade Justice Maqina Mpanza, best known as Gizenga, who died on Tuesday after two days of illness.
A Tongaat man was shot dead and his son injured on their sugar cane plantation in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday morning, police said.
About 75% of children younger than 17 lived below the poverty line of R400 per month in 1999, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa said on Tuesday.
Six people were rushed to a Richards Bay hospital in
KwaZulu-Natal after a Puma helicopter crashed on the deck of the Jolly Rubino trawler on Saturday morning, government officials said.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal indicated on Friday it intended to pressure its national leaders to seek changes to the Constitution as soon as possible to allow floor-crossing at provincial and national level.
In the application to have the ”crossing-the-floor” legislation declared unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court was told the defection law in question diminishes the Constitution and ”devalues the vote”.
The South African Screenwriters’ Association is struggling to recruit black film-makers, reports Johnny Masilela.
Moments after the six o’clock news on May 1, Jakes Gerwel’s phone rang.
South Africa’s ruling ANC romped home in a municipal by-election in KwaDukuza/Stanger in KwaZulu-Natal held on Wednesday. It raised its percentage of the vote from just over 60% in the previous election in the ward to over 90%, according to the Independent Electoral Commission.