Tributes continued to pour in on Friday for veteran anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman, who died on Thursday morning.
Helen Suzman was for many years a lone defender of liberal values in the South African Parliament, the FW de Klerk Foundation said on Thursday.
While the loss of Helen Suzman is to be mourned, her life must be celebrated, the Helen Suzman Foundation said on Thursday.
Helen Suzman has died at the age of 91. Her daughter Frances Jowell said she died peacefully this morning at her home in Johannesburg.
Helen Suzman has died at the age of 91, her daughter said on Thursday. Her daughter Frances Jowell said she died peacefully this morning.
President Kgalema Motlanthe appealed to South Africans to treat each other with respect in his New Year’s message late on Wednesday.
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/ 31 December 2008
Numerous weapons and suspected stolen property were seized during a festive-season clampdown in Durban’s KwaDabeka area, police said on Wednesday.
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/ 31 December 2008
Growth in demand for private-sector credit eased to 15,3% year-on-year in November from a revised 16,36% in October, the SARB said on Wednesday.
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/ 31 December 2008
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) says the 2008 matric results showed an ”ailing education system” that needed a ”complete overhaul”.
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/ 30 December 2008
The drop in the matric pass rate from 65% last year to 62,5% is cause for concern, says the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu).
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/ 30 December 2008
The uneven matric results show that despite a curriculum change, the SA education system is still plagued by problems rooted in the apartheid era.
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/ 30 December 2008
SA’s trade deficit widened to R12,1-billion in November largely due to higher vehicle imports and lower precious metals exports.
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/ 30 December 2008
The country’s 2008 matric class received a pass rate of 62,5 %, Education Minister Naledi Pandor said on Tuesday.
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/ 29 December 2008
The festive season road accident death toll has been nearly halved in 2008, down to 774 fatalities compared to last year’s 1 474.
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/ 29 December 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma on Monday urged tougher legislation against all forms of crimes in a country where over 50 murders are committed every day.
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/ 29 December 2008
SA face their biggest challenge since readmission to international football 16 years ago when they host the Fifa Confederations Cup next June.
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/ 28 December 2008
Fano Ephraim Mtshali hasn’t held a steady job since 1998 and claws out a living for his two children and his eight orphaned nieces and nephews.
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/ 28 December 2008
The legacy of OBE is revealing itself through those who have lived the changes, write Cornia Pretorius and Primarashni Gower.
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/ 27 December 2008
Thembelihle Tshabalala goes to Musina and listens to Zimbabwean refugees suffering as they wait for asylum.
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/ 26 December 2008
The single most important legacy of OBE is another lost generation in South Africa’s poorest schools, writes Cornia Pretorius.
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/ 26 December 2008
Adriaan Basson asks if public toilets are the last uncensored spaces to air one’s views.
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/ 25 December 2008
A third body from the Kingfisher — which capsized and sunk off Oyster Bay this week — was recovered on Thursday, Eastern Cape police said.
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/ 25 December 2008
In August 2006 United States president elect Barack Obama visited South Africa at the start of a five-country tour of the continent.
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/ 25 December 2008
Brent Meersman goes up and down Cape Town’s cosmopolitan strip.
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/ 25 December 2008
There’s a move afoot locally to hustle crime fiction into the thriller category. Evangelisers of this new gospel say crime is a reminder of SA reality
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/ 24 December 2008
As we move into 2009, one prediction can be made with confidence: while the Zuma case continues, turbulent constitutional times are likely.
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/ 23 December 2008
Mining deaths have dropped by 23% despite the absence of a presidential audit report, trade union Solidarity said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 December 2008
Two more people have been admitted to hospital with suspected cholera in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, the provincial health department said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 December 2008
Mbeki biographer Mark Gevisser reflects on the former president’s annus horribilis and the uncertainties left in the wake of his unceremonious exit.
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/ 23 December 2008
It’s easy to dislike Christmas when you were born a cynical old man. As a child, as if in training to become a columnist, I hated everything.
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/ 22 December 2008
The SAHRC on Monday said it would soon begin to investigate the origins of anti-immigrant violence that claimed more than 60 lives in May.
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/ 22 December 2008
A total of 1 722 people were assaulted and 111 people sustained gunshot wounds in KZN over the first 18 days of December.