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.
Victims of gang violence on the crime-ridden Cape Flats broke down in tears on Tuesday as they related their experiences to Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
The government’s proposed clean air legislation will allow industry to continue polluting as usual, according to a group of 40 organisations, including trade unions and environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
There was much legal jousting in the Cape High Court on Monday as lawyers argued about the admissibility of evidence in a civil case involving Western Cape politicians.
Zola Skweyiya says it is time to reflect on how South Africa is ensuring that its social services truly benefit children in need. Speaking at the launch of child protection week, Skweyiya, the Minister of Social Development, focused on the socio-economic conditions in which children continue to live.
The Cape High Court heard allegations on Thursday of corruption and maladministration in the Western Cape social welfare department involving more than R1-million.
More than 1 300 jobs in the Western Cape construction industry were lost — some of them to Gauteng — in the 12 months to the end of June 2002, Western Cape Premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Thursday.
The large Lourensford wine farm near Somerset West, has embarked on the South African wine industry’s first fully-fledged waste water recovery project that will see the creation of two hectares of man-made wetlands.
Environmental lobby group Earthlife Africa’s Pretoria High Court bid to block plans to build a pebble-bed modular reactor at Koeberg on the Cape West Coast was delayed once again on Monday.
South Africa’s infant mortality rate is considerably higher than many other countries which fall into the same income category and even higher than many countries that fall into a lower income group.
Residents from one of South Africa’s poorest townships have destroyed the myth that Africans cannot be trusted with Aids drugs in the most dramatic way — by staying alive.
South Africa’s Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa officially closed the Western Cape Metropolitan black economic empowerment (BEE) conference late on Tuesday, warning against a tendency to believe that barriers to BEE were insurmountable in some sectors of the economy.
Energy and Minerals Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka warned mining companies on Monday not to neglect the so-called ”soft issues” contained in the new Mining Charter, such as training, in favour the central question of mine ownership.
The South African government will not act irresponsibly or irrationally by giving taxpayers’ funds to previously disadvantaged individuals or companies that are ill-prepared or ill-equipped to meet the challenges ahead as part of the broader black economic empowerment agenda.
South Africa can weather the global storm posed by growing international economic integration by implementing sound economic policies and working together to use the country’s more open economy to the best advantage.
The demand for water in the Western Cape was a ticking time-bomb which had to be defused, Western Cape premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Monday.
The Western Cape based Anti-Eviction Campaign is set to challenge stringent bail conditions placed on Max Ntanyana, a Mandela Park community leader.
Former first lady Marike de Klerk’s killer, 22-year-old Luyanda Mboniswa, was sentenced to two life terms in the Cape High Court on Thursday. He also got three years for his forced entry — housebreaking — into De Klerk’s home.