Messages of condolences have poured in for South African cricket legend Clive Rice who passed away on Tuesday at 66.
What the great and the good have had to say about class throughout history.
With only four candidates applying for a vacancy at the Constitutional Court, there are rumours that Ray Zondo will merely rubberstamp appointments.
The M&G’s battle to gain access to a report on the conditions surrounding the 2002 elections in Zimbabwe returns to the High Court on June 14.
The management of South Africa’s heritage resources is in for a boost following the launch of a heritage-based study programme at Rhodes University.
The online charity auction for the right to name South Africa’s most recently discovered flower species has already drawn a bid of R60 000.
Cosatu has forwarded the name of its Western Cape provincial secretary, Tony Ehrenreich, to the ANC as a candidate for mayor of Cape Town.
A report that former president Thabo Mbeki was involved in the formation of Cope was a "misinterpretation", a Unisa professor said on Thursday.
The failure of the DA to remove prosecutions boss Menzi Simelane has cleared the way for him to focus on his duties, the government said on Wednesday.
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/ 22 October 2010
Thirty-three years ago, on October 19 1977, the apartheid government banned three newspapers and many political organisations.
A <i>Sunday Times</i> journalist was arrested for fraud and defeating the ends of justice on Wednesday.
Foreign nationals fearing renewed outbreaks of xenophobic violence reportedly continued to seek transport out of Cape Town on Tuesday.
A Libyan plane arriving from SA crashed on Wednesday at Tripoli airport, killing all 105 people on board, it was reported.
At least two people died and others were critically injured when a Rovos Rail train derailed in Pretoria on Wednesday, paramedics said.
South Africa’s Mining Ministry said on Tuesday it would review a decision to award a new prospecting right in Kumba Iron Ore’s Sishen Mine.
President Jacob Zuma has requested a report from the SAPS on an incident between his protection unit and a reporter, his office said on Wednesday.
DA leader Helen Zille has asked President Jacob Zuma for an urgent meeting to discuss the issue of so-called "blue-light bullies".
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/ 13 December 2009
ANCYL president Julius Malema has sent a threatening SMS to SACP deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin, it was reported on Sunday.
It’s been a little more than a year since Stellenbosch University’s postgraduate programme in renewable and sustainable energy studies opened its doors and welcomed its first students. In the department of electrical and electronic engineering, novel electrical machines are studied to be used in wind and hydro-energy applications.
The Democratic Republic of Congo, not exactly a country synonymous with state-of-the-art scientific facilities, is about to get a new multimillion-rand laboratory, which, when completed, will be the envy of the mining world. When completed at the end of this year, the facility will have the capacity to produce 100 000 tonnes annually of copper cathode and 12 000 tonnes annually of cobalt cathode.
Some of South Africa’s leading scientists, science fundis and environmental experts are working on solutions to arrest global warming and help alleviate its effects. Electrical engineer Professor Pragasen Pillay is one of them. He specialises in using science and technology to reduce household waste and is adamant that environmental charity begins at home.
While the developed world has not yet lived up to its commitment to give 1% of its GDP to the developing South, aid flows have increased since 2000, when the pledge was renewed at the <i>United Nations Millennium Summit. A Southern Africa Trust policy brief, Aid Effectiveness: Trends and Impacts of Shifting Financial Flows to Civil Society Organisations in Southern Africa</i>.
South African trade unions have launched one of the biggest national strikes of the post-apartheid era in a move widely seen as spearheading the left’s challenge to win control of the ruling African National Congress ahead of next year’s presidential election. Public-service unions seem determined not to back down on their demands.
Zimbabwe’s government this week said it had signed a "social contract" with business and labour unions, a deal it says will effectively bring an end to years of political and economic crisis within the next six months. But one of the key partners denies ever agreeing to any such deal, while a 50% increase in electricity charges by the state power utility just days after the announcement means industry will find it impossible to keep its pledge to freeze prices.
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/ 5 February 2007
The United Democratic Party (UDM) will not be participating in this year’s State of the Nation debate unless it is allocated reasonable time to raise its supporters’ issues, the party’s leader, Bantu Holomisa, said on Monday. According to the UDM leader, Parliament on Monday informed him that his party has been given only one minute to participate in the debate scheduled to take place on Friday.
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/ 10 January 2007
Zimbabwe’s attempt to strip newspaper owner Trevor Ncube — publisher of the <i>Standard</i> and the <i>Zimbabwe Independent</i> in that country and the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> in South Africa — of his citizenship threatens the ownership of his newspapers and media freedom, the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) warned on Wednesday.
Government officials, workers and employers assembled in Geneva for the 19th annual International Labour Conference this month to find solutions to the problems facing workers who fall outside labour regulation.
Township consumers who buy live chickens on street corners run the risk of contracting diarrhoea, skin ulcerations, abscesses and even typhoid fever. The health risk emanates from factory farms that dispose of old livestock by selling it to township vendors.
A new partnership has been formed to ensure that the community of the Mutale Valley, Limpopo Province, benefits from the expected influx of tourists wanting to experience the December 4 total solar eclipse
Mintek ? one of the leading mining technology companies in South Africa ? is embarking on a programme to help rectify the problem of poor teaching and results in science, engineering and technology (SET) at secondary schools by “adopting” the Kwadeda Ngendlale high school in Zola North, Soweto. A list of more than 100 schools […]
The Gauteng Department of Public Transport, Roads and Works has contributed R1-million to the Ikageng Community Development Trust, a private-public partnership launched in January