Unscrupulous employment agencies will be brought to book with draft legislation published in the Government Gazette this week, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said on Wednesday.
About 340 cases of corruption had been identified in the Eastern Cape since a joint task team was established to tackle this scourge, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Tuesday.
The schedule for remuneration — part of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act — came into effect on Tuesday, ending much of the uncertainty over the calculation of retrenchment packages and severance pay.
Former president FW de Klerk has been subpoenaed to testify for the defence in the treason trial of 22 alleged members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation, an attorney said on Tuesday.
About 70% of Pan Africanist Congress members felt the party’s recent leadership election was flawed, says former general secretary Thami ka Plaatjie.
Seven alleged members of the rightwing Boeremag organisation received medical treatment on Friday after claiming to have been injured in a rough drive from court to prison on Tuesday.
The governance standards of at least two or three African countries are likely to come under scrutiny in the next few months, a senior official said on Friday.
Israel hoped to improve its relations with South Africa, which to date ”left something to be desired”, Israeli Foreign Affairs Director General Yoav Biran said on Friday.
White police officers should also be deployed in predominantly black areas like Lusikisiki, east of Umtata in the Eastern Cape, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha said on Friday.
The Minister of Health, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, on Friday called on the South African Nursing Council to stop recruiting health workers from other countries in Africa.
Several chinks in the armour of the international movement against chemical and biological weapons emerged from a seminar in Pretoria on Thursday.
The environmental impact assessment of a planned nuclear reactor at Koeberg, near Cape Town, has been approved, the environmental affairs department said on Thursday.
Recent media reports suggesting that the ministry of education was ”culling” languages in the new curriculum for grades 10 to 12 were completely inaccurate, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Wednesday.
Nearly two-thirds of respondents in a survey done in central Johannesburg and Hillbrow believed foreigners were to blame for crime.
Pre-trial arguments are to continue in the Pretoria High Court treason hearing of 22 alleged members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation on Tuesday.
”Nonsensical and absurd” is how the State described arguments on Monday by some of the 22 alleged Boeremag treason trialists that the current government and all its institutions were illegitimate.
Boeremag members plead not guilty
Six of the 22 alleged Boeremag members standing trail for treason pleaded not guilty in the Pretoria High Court on Monday. Thirteen others entered a special plea contesting the jurisdiction of the court.
The first legal arguments in the treason trial of 22 alleged Boeremag members are expected to be heard in the Pretoria High Court on Monday — more than a month after the hearing was to have started.
A total of 22 SA National Defence Force members are expected to go to the strife-torn town of Bunia in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the defence ministry said on Saturday.
It makes no sense to withhold police figures said to be showing a decline in farm killings, Agri SA and the New National Party (NNP) said on Thursday.
The Ministry of Defence on Thursday said concerns about the quality of medical support for SA National Defence Force (SANDF) troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were misplaced.
There is concern in military circles that the SA Military Health Service was not providing SA National Defence Force troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with adequate medical support.
Nearly a month after it was to have started, the treason trial of 22 alleged Boeremag members was postponed for the fourth time because of unresolved legal aid issues on Tuesday.
Year-on-year consumer price inflation less mortgage costs declined to 7,7% last month from 8,5% in April, Statistics SA reported on Tuesday.
At least 60% of pupils will get access to free basic education in terms of an action plan approved by the cabinet last week, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Tuesday.
Nearly a month after it was first to have started, the trial of 22 alleged Boeremag members is to resume in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday with no clarity yet on outstanding issues regarding legal aid.
South Africa was awarded a R19-million grant from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition which would be used in support of the country’s food fortification programme, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
Some underdevelopment challenges could only be met by a global transfer of resources from the rich to the poor, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday.
Accusations of incompetence and unreasonableness were levelled against the Legal Aid Board on Monday as the Pretoria High Court treason trial of 22 alleged rightwingers was postponed for the third time.
The trial of 22 alleged members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation is to resume in the Pretoria High Court on Monday, with no indication of whether it would actually get underway.