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.
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.
The pace of housing delivery appears to be slowing down, according to the Intergovernmental Fiscal Review (IGFR), released on Tuesday.
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.
Extensive flooding in South Africa’s Western Cape, sparked by very heavy weekend rains, has caused extensive damage to about R12-million worth of wine at Van Loveren Wines, the family-owned wine producer located outside of Robertson.
The African National Congress has accused the Treatment Action Campaign of ”bully boy tactics” after its disruption of a speech by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
Firebrand South African opposition Member of Parliament Patricia de Lille is to clarify her political future at a press conference in Cape Town on Wednesday amid widespread speculation that she is to start a new political party.
The African National Congress appears to have snatched complete control of the Western Cape legislature — leaving only the KwaZulu Natal legislature out of nine provincial legislatures outside of its complete control.
It is not macroeconomic madness to suggest that South Africa should introduce a full menu of HIV/Aids prevention and treatment programmes. The resources are there. The issue is now one of political judgement and will.
The African National Congress could emerge with an overall majority in the Western Cape with expected defections from the New National Party bolstering their numbers in the legislature.
The Democratic Alliance won a narrow victory in a key municipal by-election contest in the Western Cape town of Swellendam on Wednesday — pipping the African National Congress by 65 votes.
Pam Golding Properties, South Africa’s largest retail property group, has concluded sales worth over R1-billion to foreign investors from 48 different countries over the past 11 months (1 March 2002 – 31 January 2003).
After numerous delays, including a nose-bleed and having the charges translated from Afrikaans to English to Ndebele, the NNP’s disciplinary hearing against Peter Marais and Peter Malatsi commenced at about 8pm on Monday.
Ongoing gang-related violence on the Cape Flats seems to have stabilised after the deployment of hundreds of police last week in the affected areas, the Western Cape police commissioner said on Sunday.
The Western Cape’s three main political parties will be fighting it out in a key by-election in the leafy Swellendam on March 19 — the same day the country could be experiencing the defection shock wave at national and provincial level.
South Africa needed to market itself and its successes more effectively to attract foreign investment, according to President Thabo Mbeki’s International Investment Council.
Access to community knowledge and sources of information is a building block for economic development. Public libraries already play a vital role in this area — but they have more work to do. Counting the cost is a one-sided way of looking at the funding of public libraries: exploring the benefits shows the other side
South Africa’s municipalities were owed R24,3-billion nationally in outstanding service tariffs in September last year, according to figures tabled before Parliament’s provincial and local government portfolio committee on Tuesday.
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Gerald Morkel, once Western Cape premier, Cape Town mayor and Democratic Alliance provincial leader, will be handed his political death certificate at the Democratic Alliance provincial congress in Stellenbosch