British company Cape Plc on Friday paid about R93-million in compensation to 7 500 South African workers who suffered a range of diseases after being exposed to asbestos at work. Gencor Ltd. will also pay about R39,7-million to Cape claimants who were also exposed to asbestos while working for Gencor.
The Khomani San still live in squalor four years after they were granted land in the remote Kalahari that consultants say could make the small band one of the richest communities in South Africa.
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.
Police divers began searching for more bodies in the Saulspoort Dam outside Bethlehem at 8am on Friday after Thursday’s horror bus accident. Bethlehem emergency services confirmed that 51 bodies had been recovered so far.
Brothers John and Dave Varty won interim relief on Friday in their court case over a controversial tiger project against investors Li Quan and Stuart Bray.
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.
This year’s Intergovernmental Fiscal Review is in key respects a good news story. It throws into relief the significant progress in budgeting, spending and financial management by our nine provinces, a vital agency of poverty alleviation, in the past four years.
The legal battle between wildlife filmmaker John Varty and foreign investors Li Quan and Stuart Bray over a controversial tiger project, will resume next week after the Johannesburg High Court postponed their ‘cat-fight’ case on Tuesday.
The body of an 11-year-old boy who went missing from Groblershoop earlier this month has been found, Northern Cape police said on Monday.
South Africa’s rural municipalities are losing the battle to provide basic services, says a report released by the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) on Thursday.
Various organisations said on Thursday nothing would reverse the loss of life and damage suffered by victims of asbestos-related diseases but they welcomed the settlement agreements with Cape plc and Gencor with a mixture of anger and relief.
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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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/ 12 February 2003
The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) ”will soon start analysing and investigating” a mass of files confiscated from the Upington prison, as part of its investigation into corruption and fraud in prisons.
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/ 7 February 2003
South African Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana on Friday warned farmers and their representative bodies to stop threatening to retrench agricultural workers as a way to get the government to change agricultural legislation.
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/ 6 February 2003
Organised agriculture in the Free State and Northern Cape farmers said on Thursday that massive retrenchment of farmworkers could be expected over the next six months.
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/ 3 February 2003
Four people were stabbed to death and a two-year-old baby was among the three reported child rapes in the Northern Cape on Saturday night, police reported.
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/ 21 January 2003
The black wildebeest, which evolved around a million years ago on the central plains of southern Africa, is now under threat due to cross-breeding with its ancestral species the blue wildebeest, scientists warn.
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/ 17 January 2003
South Africans are marginally more pessimistic about this year than they were about 2002, an international survey has found.
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/ 15 January 2003
An alleged rightwinger accused of planning to blow up the Vaal Dam testified on Tuesday in the Bloemfontein Regional Court with his Bible at hand.
Residents of the remote Kalahari desert town of Groot Mier in the Northern Cape are being plagued by scores of scorpions on the crawl.
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.
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/ 28 December 2002
Praise for the 7,2% improvement in the 2002 matric exam results was tempered on Friday by warnings that huge inequalities still existed between South Africa’s nine provinces when it came to education resources.
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/ 13 December 2002
Although all political parties have lost support recently, the African National Congress (ANC) continues to be the dominant party in South Africa, according to the latest Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) survey.
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/ 20 September 2002
The Cabinet’s April 17 statement on HIV/Aids policy — widely hailed as a crucial change of heart — is looking increasingly threadbare. Was it, as some maintain, merely a tactical manoeuvre to deflect international condemnation in advance of the G8 meeting in Canada.
The bankers of Cape plc — the company that reached an out-of-court settlement with asbestosis victims last year — would be held personally responsible if it is proved they were responsible for reneging on the agreement, says the victims’ legal counsel.
The country’s fiercest political rivals and one time allies, the Democratic Alliance and the New National Party on Friday used poll results to claim superiority over each other in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.
Temperatures ranging from as little 2C to as high as 38,5C within only three weeks had damaged one of the most promising South African wheat crops in years.
Cabinet has decided to reduce the number of higher education institutions from 36 to 21, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Thursday.
Large numbers of South Africans could suffer serious eye injuries during the eclipse over the country on December 4 because of a shortage of eclipse viewing glasses, a company involved in preparations around the event warned on Thursday.
Lawyers for thousands of South Africans suffering from asbestos-related diseases are to return to the English High Court on Tuesday in a renewed bid for compensation.
Diamond giant De Beers has warned the country’s proposed minerals law could put R8,5-billion in investment at risk because it threatened mining companies’ security of tenure.
Political control changed hands in 21 municipalities in four provinces following a 15-day floor-crossing window period for local councillors — 13 of them in the Western Cape, it emerged on Friday.