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.
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 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.
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.
Incomes in South African black households fell by 19% between 1995 and 2000, while white household incomes rose by 15%. Last year, two out of three black households in Cape Town townships did not have enough food to eat, a recent survey has found.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has gained an important victory in the Mother City’s lower-middle class coloured suburb of Grassy Park. The by-election is one of eight held on Wednesday.
A new approach in resolving disputes over religion at South African schools should be adopted by government, says opposition Freedom Front leader Pieter Mulder.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will take to the streets
if the government does not ”come to the party” on the issue of Aids
treatment, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.
News of the death of anti-apartheid struggle veteran Walter Sisulu was broken to South African President Thabo Mbeki on Monday night, while he was in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Identifying SA as a cost-effective location for servicing the customer contact needs of international businesses, the Dialogue UK Group has invested in a call centre operation in Cape Town, with plans to expand employment to 1 500 people.
The Legal Aid Board is processing applications for assistance from 23 members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation due to go on trial for alleged treason and terrorism later this month.
The significant drop in the number of strikes in South Africa in the past year is in part a reflection of the success of labour legislation passed since 1994 that encourages the resolution of disputes through dialogue and discussion.
The Western Cape public protector has accepted a petition and a business plan from a member of the public who wants to build houses in rural areas using cannabis mixed with lime and sand.
South African leaders are to share their experience of the transition to democracy with Israeli and Palestinians at a special conference beginning on Sunday.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has nominated New National Party (NNP) member Freddy Adams to be one of its representatives in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) for the Western Cape.
South Africans celebrated Freedom Day on Sunday with President Thabo Mbeki saying the government would continue carrying out its programmes to fight HIV/Aids.
Among other flaws, the Bill threatens to fundamentally undermine the right to freedom of association – part of the bedrock of our multi-hued and still emergent constitutional state.
The Limpopo province has the lowest concentration of doctors in South Africa, with just 9,5 for every 100 000 of the population, according to figures released by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
After delivering an impressive set of results, supermarket group Pick ‘n Pay showed its intentions to broaden its horizons within and beyond South Africa’s borders.