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.
The Western Cape health department expects to complete within the next two months an estimate of the cost of providing antiretroviral treatment to children in the province.
Pam Golding Properties (PGP), South Africa’s largest residential property sales company by turnover, has recorded record annual sales of R6,521-billion rand for the financial year.
The University of the Witwatersrand is set to appoint a new vice-chancellor following the controversial resignation last year of Professor Norma Reid-Birley.
A total of 25 777 cases of drunk driving were reported in 2001, of which 8 675 involved accidents, according to Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
All this floor-crossing has the manne at the Dorsbult quite confused. In fact we spent so much time redrawing our colour-coded diagram of the National Assembly that Oom Krisjan had no time to remark on the movements last week.
The departments of environmental affairs and justice are seriously considering extending environmental courts across the country, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Valli Moosa said on Wednesday.
The pace of housing delivery appears to be slowing down, according to the Intergovernmental Fiscal Review (IGFR), released on Tuesday.
Ousted deputy social services minister David Malatsi has gone to court in a bid to force the New National Party (NNP) to make him a member of parliament.
A range of politicians has crossed the floor to join or start new political homes. On radio talk shows and on the letters pages of newspapers, they are not floor-crossers, but double-crossers.
With only hours to go before the close, at midnight on Friday, of the 15-day window period for MPs and MPLs to cross the floor to the party of their choice without losing their seats, the National Assembly has undergone a substantial change.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has now officially beaten the Democratic Alliance (DA) in raiding the smaller parties during the two-week defection period allowing politicians to cross the floor.
Senior government officials met in Robertson east of Cape Town on Monday to put a monetary value to the damage caused by last week’s devastating floods in the area.
Western Cape environmentalists and farmers are increasingly concerned about the multi-million rand proposal to build the Skuifraam Dam near Franschoek, saying it was a ”looming disaster”.
Zimbabwe is in a dire economic crisis and South Africa’s government and businesses must help it rebuild, a meeting among President Thabo Mbeki and high powered industry leaders concluded Saturday.
With a ”staggering” figure of 45% of the vote up for grabs Patricia de Lille’s new party could have a role to play in Western Cape politics, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) said on Friday.
Flamboyant Western Cape politician Peter Marais says he is to quit the New National Party and start up his own party. He is to formally announce the move at a media briefing in Cape Town on Thursday afternoon.
Fiery MP Patricia de Lille says she is quitting the Pan Africanist Congress to launch a new political party, to be called the Independent Democrats.