President Thabo Mbeki and other dignitaries escaped injury when a tent roof caved in on them during National Women’s Day celebrations. The Department of Labour has issued a prohibition notice against the company that erected the stage.
The government has reversed its long-standing Aids policy, with Cabinet instructing the health department to urgently develop a detailed operational plan for a national anti-retroviral treatment programme. Earlier, the health minister had announced her support for the use of anti-retroviral drugs in public hospitals.
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In its present form, the Sexual Offences Bill could face constitutional challenges as it violated certain entrenched rights of alleged offenders, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) warned on Friday.
Confirmed burglaries at some ministerial residences in Pretoria drew a stony silence from the police on Thursday. ”The SA Police Service is not commenting,” said national spokesperson Senior Superintendent Selby Bokaba.
Embattled Liberian President Charles Taylor will hand over power to his deputy next Monday, President Thabo Mbeki said on Tuesday. ”President Taylor will leave Liberia after the installation of that vice-president on Monday,” Mbeki told reporters in Pretoria.
A review of the Scorpions elite detective unit was about redefining its mandate and not about disbanding it, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakukla said on Tuesday.
The release on parole of about 8 000 prisoners will be speeded up to relieve overcrowding in the country’s jails, Correctional Services Minister Ben Skosana said on Tuesday.
There will be no retrenchment of excess public service staff before June next year, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Monday.
A thorough review of the Scorpions elite detective unit is underway, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi indicated on Monday.
Some of the Boeremag trialists, just like followers of the Zulu monarchy, were not bound by the Constitution, the Pretoria High Court heard on Monday.
A University of SA employee investigating the forging of Unisa degrees and diplomas has been receiving death threats, a spokesperson announced on Monday.
The economic history of the Afrikaner held many lessons for South Africa’s future growth, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Of particular interest was the manner in which they tackled the problem of the poor white Afrikaner — brought about by English domination.
The bodies of two women and a toddler, hijacked in Sunnyside, Pretoria, on Thursday night, were discovered at different spots in northern Pretoria and the North West on Friday, police reported.
The long-awaited report on a probe into the motives for incidents in which the occupants of farms were murdered, assaulted and robbed was handed to National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi on Thursday.
The Legal Aid Board (LAB) expected to fork out as much as R4,5-million for the defence in the Boeremag treason trial over a two-year period, an official said on Wednesday.
Former constitutional development minister Roelf Meyer will not have to testify for the defence when the Boeremag treason trial resumes next Monday.
A doctor and three senior nurses from Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital, as well as two Aids activists, symbolically tied themselves together with a rope in front of the national health department’s head office in Pretoria on Wednesday.
South Africa has reported a major improvement in relations between Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
The South African government has officially asked a US court to dismiss apartheid reparations litigation before it. In a strongly-worded letter from Minister Penuell Maduna to United States District Judge John E Sprizzo, the South African minister asked Sprizzo, a federal judge, to dismiss two apartheid reparations lawsuits.
President Thabo Mbeki signalled his support on Tuesday for another interest rate cut, saying: ”Cheaper money would be good for the economy.”
New moves were afoot on Tuesday to get former president FW de Klerk to testify in the Boeremag treason trial after the Pretoria High Court set aside a subpoena calling him as a defence witness.
A subpoena issued for former president FW de Klerk to testify for the defence in the Boeremag treason trial was set aside by the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday.
The statue of former Transvaal president Paul Kruger is to be removed from the Kruger National Park, park authorities said on Monday.
It was more expensive for the government to let teachers with HIV/Aids die than to provide them with anti-retroviral drugs, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Monday.
A national forum to curtail racism is to be launched in Pretoria next week, the justice department said on Friday.
A national forum to curtail racism is to be launched in Pretoria next week, the justice department said on Friday.
Attempts to have him testify for the defence in the Boeremag trial amounted to nothing more than politicking, former state president FW de Klerk said on Friday.
An urgent application by former president FW de Klerk for the Pretoria High Court to set aside a subpoena directing him to testify for the defence in the Boeremag trial is to be heard on Friday.
The abusers of 30 elephants brought from the Tuli block in Botswana in 1998 will be sentenced in the Pretoria Regional Court on Tuesday.
If the presidential jet Inkwazi had not been used to take a minister and the president’s legal adviser to Kinshasa last month, there might not have been a government in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), director general in the Presidency Frank Chikane said on Thursday.
The presidency has washed its hands of the reported controversial outcome of a Nigerian oil deal supported by President Thabo Mbeki in 1999.