The campaign for Aids treatment is also a fight for the ANC’s traditions of freedom and dignity, writes Zackie Achmat.
Pick ‘n Pay CEO Sean Summers said on Thursday that Pick ‘n Pay would have no alternative but to comply with the South Africa’s new legislation on plastic bags that comes into effect on 9 May that forces consumers to pay for their bags.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) will on Friday meet with the South African Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors (SAFCEC) in Bedfordview to begin wage negotiations.
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 chairman of Australian mining group Continental Goldfields, John Stratton, said on Tuesday an application had been made to the Western Australian Court to have a legal action brought by South Africa’s Durban Roodepoort Deep group "knocked out".
Fighting in eastern Liberia has prevented the entire region bordering Cote d’Ivoire from receiving aid, Medecins sans Frontieres reported.
The South African rand was trading close to a 21-month best level against the US dollar in mid-morning trade on Tuesday — testing 7,8377 against the greenback.
It’s old hat, of course, to reiterate that the first casualty in war is always the truth. In the 1991 Gulf War a clear decision was taken to keep journalists away from the front lines, in order to avoid embarrassing disclosures of atrocities and on-side ineptitude. This time round, in another war that makes no sense, as far as anyone with half a brain can see, the opposite tactic has been used.
President Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered the immediate arrest of ethnic militants who unleashed two weeks of violence in Nigeria’s volatile Niger Delta that caused scores of deaths and halted oil operations.
They call South Africa’s electoral method by a fine-sounding name, “proportional representation”, in order to cover up the fact that it’s actually a bag of extremely smelly political bones that has far less to do with the practical implementation of democratic ideals than it has with keeping one’s party cronies safely in the driving seats of all those tasteful Mercedes and Pajeros.
The announcement of the appointment of Santam (SNT) CEO Johan van Zyl as the new head of Sanlam (SLM) on Friday ends months of uncertainty and speculation about the future of the financial services giant following the sudden departure of Leon Vermaak late last year
In these times of helplessness, there are only so many words one can say about the wretched war being fought in the desert of Iraq and there only so many slogans that can be chanted in opposition to it.
It was a simple ceremony in a remote corner of the Kalahari desert, but a landmark event for the rights of indigenous people worldwide.
South Africa is said to be facing one of the worst tuberculosis epidemics in the world, with disease rates up to 60 times higher than those currently experienced in the United States.
Rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army reportedly killed a government peace envoy on Monday, dampening hopes for a peaceful end to the 17-year insurgency in northern Uganda.
Between 5 000 and 6 000 people flocked to the Kegue Stadium in the Togolese capital, Lome, on 6 March, hoping to be selected for treatment by the doctors of the Anastasis, the "mercy ship" that arrived at Lome port on 28 February.
South Africa’s unemployment rate was 30,5% in September 2002, up from 29,4% in March 2002, according to Labour Force Survey (LFS) results released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in Pretoria on Tuesday.
South African financial services group Old Mutual Asset Managers has scooped four awards for its unit trusts’ investment performance in the annual Standard and Poor’s – Financial Mail Unit Trust rankings for 2002.
Government is set to establish the Broad- Based Black Economic Empowerment Advisory Council to advise President Thabo Mbeki on the implementation of BEE strategies to make sure that full transformation of the business sector is in accordance with economic growth,
It ain’t so easy getting to Ouagadougou from Johannesburg. It would be nice if all these New Partnership for Africa’s Development and African Union initiatives paid less attention to providing our leaders with fancy aeroplanes and paid more attention to how ordinary natives from Africa can get from A to B on their own patch of ground.
Pain in the ass: Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) — associated with vaginal and anal cancer, and pre-cancerous lesions — has been found in a significant number of HIV-positive men who have never had anal intercourse, say researchers from the Georges Pompidou Hospital outpatient clinic in Paris.
The war in Iraq is an unjust war for many reasons. It has no international sanction. The United Nations is solely concerned with Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction; President George W Bush has no international authority to pursue regime change. But the war is also about revenge.
The cricket World Cup has not been played behind some ethical quarantine, nor will future ones be. The crookery hasn’t gone and this World Cup no more celebrates true sporting glory than previous tournaments prompted the need for the opening of 70 secret offshore bank accounts by one of the most burnished of cricketing icons.
Text of Saddam Hussein’s address to the nation, broadcast on Thursday on Iraqi television shortly after the first US strikes against Baghdad, translated from Arabic by AFP.
De Beers’ (AGL) Supplier of Choice strategy will stimulate competition and drive consumer demand for diamonds, says the diamond giant’s chairman, Nicky Oppenheimer.
So there’s going be a war. So there’s going to be regime change in Baghdad. So there’s going to be lots of "collateral damage" in the form of thousands of dead Arabs. So what?
<b>10.15pm:</b> US and British units crossing the Kuwaiti border into southern Iraq have seized the Iraqi border town of Umm Qasr, the official Kuwaiti News Agency reported.
The death toll in the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Cuvette-Ouest Region of northern Congo has continued to rise. Of the 123 people known to have been infected with the haemorrhagic fever, 111 had died, Joseph M’boussa, who is heading the fight against the virus, told a United Nations news agency.
Dreams — especially those that involve involuntary nocturnal emissions — exact an unhealthy psychological hold on the dreamer that makes it embarassing or imprudent to talk about them to anyone who is not a psychiatrist.
South African short-term insurer Santam Limited (SNT) has obtained a 47.5% stake in UK personal lines underwriting manager Bluesure for 4,5-million sterling (about R57-million), CEO Johan van Zyl announced on Wednesday.
Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said on Wednesday his department would intensify the implementation of the Employment Equity Act (EEA) during 2003.
South Africa’s Finance Minister Trevor Manuel says the SA government’s stance on Iraq is not a position in support of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, but a position against unilateralism.