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.
The South African Ministry of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology has accepted new place names for towns in the province of Limpopo — including Louis Trichardt’s new name of Makhado.
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.
An East London daily newspaper says it has tracked down what appears to be the real family of the teenager in the centre of a saga that has caught the imagination of the entire country.
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.
The Democratic Alliance has called for the removal of Mpumalanga health MEC Sibongile Manana following an announcement on Thursday that her department had been placed under curatorship.
South African police were last night examining DNA samples from a Pretoria couple who said they were the parents of a white teenager who emerged this week from a rural black township, claiming he was kidnapped 12 years ago and raised as a goatherd.
"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.
Sixty-three people had been confirmed dead by Thursday afternoon after the bus they were travelling in plunged into a dam near Bethlehem in the eastern Free State, according to African National Congress.
80 feared dead in horror bus crash
The government must immediately carry out the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the treatment of mothers living with HIV and Aids, as well as their newly born babies, according to a SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) report.
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.
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 flamboyant tycoon behind Mpumalanga’s infamous R50-billion Dolphin Deal has been arrested in Kenya after almost a decade on the run.
Controversy over rural security has deepened in South Africa with a government decision to phase out a paramilitary force that was part of the apartheid state’s security apparatus.
The last remaining South African ”human shields” in Iraq will return home next Tuesday after they decided to leave the war-torn country, the Iraq Action Committee said on Friday
Pam Golding Properties, South Africa’s largest retail property group, has concluded sales worth over R1-billion to foreign investors from 48 different countries over the past 11 months (1 March 2002 – 31 January 2003).
The government’s legal battles against the Aids lobby group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) last year cost R2,88-million, according to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
The newborn baby boy who was found in a black plastic bag outside a panel beating premises in Marabastad on Saturday morning has died, Pretoria police said on Tuesday.
The Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) has successfully recovered ,9-million paid to a company in terms of an ”irregular” contract for the sale of the SFF’s strategic stock, Minerals and Energy Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Monday.
The Legal Aid Board has come to the assistance of a 13-year-old boy who was apparently infected with HIV during a blood transfusion at the Pretoria Academic Hospital last year.
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/ 24 February 2003
A group of San (Bushmen) from Lake Chrissie in Mpumalanga visited the mountain peaks of their forefathers in KwaZulu-Natal last week, along with local San descendants and other San from the Northern Cape.
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/ 21 February 2003
The number of sites distributing nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant mothers in Mpumalanga would increase to 55 by early next year, premier Ndaweni Mahlangu announced on Friday.
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/ 14 February 2003
Anglo Platinum and Cluff Mining plc announced on Friday that they had finalised an agreement to establish a joint venture for developing the Sheba’s Ridge platinum project in Mpumalanga.
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/ 11 February 2003
Going to jail in solidarity with Mpumalanga health MEC Sibongile Manana was the first constructive proposal made by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the UDM said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 February 2003
Platinum mining will create employment for the foreseeable future and gold mining appears to have stemmed the haemorrhaging of jobs of the past six years, figures from Department of Minerals and Energy suggest. This in a week when platinum touched a high of $698 an ounce.
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/ 30 January 2003
The ”so-called” out-of-court settlement between the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) to ”doctor” the TRC report was a cause for serious concern, the African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal said on Thursday.
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/ 24 January 2003
Listed petrochemicals group Sasol (SOL) has commissioned its technologically advanced R1-billion new alcohol plant at Secunda in the Mpumalanga province the company said on Thursday.
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/ 21 January 2003
HIV/Aids was expected to slash 12-million off South Africa’s population growth by 2015, the University of South Africa’s Bureau of Market Research (BMR) said on Monday.
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The Mpumalanga Parks Board denied on Wednesday afternoon that it would endanger the lives of eight lions at a predator sanctuary in the province by moving them to another location.
While the road death toll since December 1 mounted to 1 236 by Monday, the Democratic Alliance demanded the resignation of Transport Minister Dullah Omar, or his removal from office.
British American Tobacco deliberately sought to undermine health experts’ work on tobacco control in Southern Africa in the early 1990s.