About 70% of Pan Africanist Congress members felt the party’s recent leadership election was flawed, says former general secretary Thami ka Plaatjie.
While the government holds up its mother-to-child HIV-transmission prevention programme as the continent’s largest, it is turning into a shambles in many provinces.
The Democratic Alliance is to request the Auditor-General to investigate alleged irregularities surrounding a contract to upgrade facilities at the Western Cape College of Nursing, outside Cape Town.
Drug abuse and illicit trafficking are among the biggest social, political, economic and security challenges facing the world in the 21st century, said Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya on Thursday.
More than 1 000 people from rural communities all over the Western Cape marched on Parliament on Tuesday to highlight the lack of land reform in the region.
The Umtata District Court on Monday granted 12 people, who were arrested in connection with the discovery of eight shallow graves inside a church compound in the area, bail of R300 each.
Former Pan Africanist Congress member of Parliament Patricia de Lille has launched her new political party, the Independent Democrats (ID) — but her political opponents are questioning the chances of her reaching a target of 5% of the vote.
Opening the Western Cape provincial hearings on the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s draft editorial policy on Monday, premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk highlighted the power the corporation has to do good or to do harm.
In an unprecedented legal manoeuvre, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has approached the judge president of the Cape High Court and offered to mediate in an eviction dispute involving about 3 000 families.
A day after the official launch of her fledgling new party — the Independent Democrats (ID) — party leader and outspoken Aids activist Patricia de Lille confirmed the election of the ID’s national executive committee members on Sunday.
A member of the Film and Publications Board has suggested, tongue-in-cheek, that South Africans use political leaders as symbols for film ratings, similar to an experiment that will be launched in England next week.
More money for land reform, especially for people in rural areas, was urgently needed, the director of the Surplus People’s Project (SPP), Herschelle Milford, said on Thursday.
The African National Congress has triumphed by four votes in a fierce election battle with the Democratic Alliance in Cloetesville in Stellenbosch, the Cape Times reported on Thursday.
The government must, at least, extend the childcare grant to children up to 18 years of age and make it available to child-headed households. "The worse off you are, the less likely you are actually to receive grants," says a senior researcher about proposals for a comprehensive social security system.
Government says it will build more large dams in areas of South Africa where it believes they are needed, although it has pledged to do so in a technically, environmentally and socially responsible way.
Nine months ago the controversial Communal Land Rights Bill was published for public comment. After a long gestation period, it now appears that the Bill may be stillborn.
The government unequivocally supported and respected the independence of the judiciary, Justice Minister Penuell Maduna said in a statement.
Winston Mankunku’s greatness is not exaggerated. His career is a vital thread in the jazz tapestry of South Africa, and he stands alongside other veteran greats like Hugh Masekela, writes Struan Douglas.
The government has never clearly declared itself against the idea of a basic income grant (BIG), but all the signs are that it would like the clamour for BIG — from trade unions, churches, the NGO sector and the Democratic Alliance — to go away.
Former Western Cape MEC Freda Adams told the Cape High Court on Wednesday that she broke down in tears after Peter Marais told he she was ”not a woman”.
Fresh herbs grown in the dusty plains of Beaufort West in the Karoo, packaged and transported to the international market in 24 hours — this is the ultimate goal of the Western Cape’s first hydroponics farm.
South Africa’s National Industrial Participation Programme (Nipp) has already produced more than 6 000 jobs of the 14 000 direct jobs targeted by 2011, says Department of Trade and Industry Deputy Director General Lionel October.
Young jazz musicians from historically disadvantaged communities in Cape Town are set to benefit from free professional jazz training in a new initiative by Artscape, the performing arts hub of the Western Cape.
The Democratic Alliance on Friday laid a theft charge against the New National Party over what it said were several hundred stolen election poster boards.
About 150 doctors and nurses picketed at Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital in Soweto on Friday in support of a treatment plan for Aids patients, a Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) spokesperson said.
Oom Krisjan is proud that he cut his teeth (so to speak) on the rough-and-tumble of political debate in the Marico, where a meaty fist to the jaw followed by a bottle of Klipdrift to the kop counts as a suave intellectual intervention.
South Africa has emerged as the world’s fastest-growing tourism destination, with 6,4-million tourists visiting last year. This is an increase of 11,1% from the previous year, according to the Ministry of Environmental Affairs and Tourism.
A decision will be made ”soon” to roll out a national antiretroviral (ARV) treatment plan for people with HIV/Aids, Western Cape health member of the executive committee (MEC) Piet Meyer said on Wednesday.
The Cricket World Cup held earlier this year had a number of positive spin-offs for black economic empowerment, the Department of Trade and Industry said on Wednesday.
South Africa is a nation of gamblers with more than 70% of its population participating in the national lottery and 19% of the population engaging in casino gambling.
Lawyers for both Freda Adams and former Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel were tightlipped on Tuesday afternoon as intensive corridor talk between the two parties at the Cape High Court led to speculation of an out-of-court settlement.
Addressing a group of journalists at an event marking the two-year anniversary of the Medecines Sans Frontieres’ antiretroviral therapy pilot programme in a Cape Town township, 21-year old Aids patient Babalwa Tembani is nowhere near ready to die.