A man charged with allegedly helping devise a right-wing plot to overthrow the government, was freed on R20 000 bail in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday.
How many of the year’s events can you remember?<br>
1 Who won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature?<br>
2 Which KwaZulu-Natal mayor said Cape Town could "keep [the] moffies and gays"?
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/ 28 December 2002
Praise for the 7,2% improvement in the 2002 matric exam results was tempered on Friday by warnings that huge inequalities still existed between South Africa’s nine provinces when it came to education resources.
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/ 24 December 2002
About six months ago I was invited to the University of Pretoria to participate in a debate with Xolela Mangcu, the drector of the Steve Biko Foundation, on why race (and ethnic) relations seemed to be more contentious as the transition progressed.
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/ 15 December 2002
The Pan Africanist Congress is to intensify campaigns for poverty eradication through the sharing of the country’s wealth ahead of the 2004 elections.
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/ 13 December 2002
Although all political parties have lost support recently, the African National Congress (ANC) continues to be the dominant party in South Africa, according to the latest Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) survey.
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/ 13 December 2002
Supporters stood at attention and sang the old Transvaal Republic’s anthem as eight alleged rightwingers appeared in the Pretoria Regional Court on Thursday afternoon on charges of high treason, terrorism, and sabotage.
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/ 15 November 2002
Oom Krisjan is a regular recipient of important Western Cape government information via e-mail. This week his attention was drawn to one particular missive from provincial Housing MEC Nomatyala Hangana.
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/ 8 November 2002
The seventh annual Southern African International Film and Television Market (Sithengi) will this year, for the first time, hold a children’s festival, writes Maria Kurian.
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/ 20 September 2002
The Cabinet’s April 17 statement on HIV/Aids policy — widely hailed as a crucial change of heart — is looking increasingly threadbare. Was it, as some maintain, merely a tactical manoeuvre to deflect international condemnation in advance of the G8 meeting in Canada.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development is the biggest thing to hit Jozi since the Jameson Raid — considering Krugersdorp and Sandton are about equidistant from the city centre — and next week’s shindig has driven the citizenry even crazier than usual.
Oom Krisjan has noticed that those who kept the red flag flying here have been rather quiet of late. In fact, there’s been a suspicion that they’ve all turned into creditcard-carrying communists, what with central committee member Jeff Radebe being in the vanguard of the privatisation.
The news that Snuki Zikalala is leaving the SABC for pastures new was greeted with much regret in the Dorsbult. We regulars have missed his enthusiastic mangling of all the official languages since the former labour reporter was kicked upstairs to become an executive editor…
Controversial German businessman Jurgen Harksen is to appear before a commission of inquiry to — perhaps — tell all about his dealings with former Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel.
REVIEW: Heaven Forbid by Christopher Hope (Macmillan).
Heaven Forbid represents a deepening of Hope’s vision of apartheid South Africa, writes John Higgins.
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/ 12 January 2002
Police raided the homes of several rightwingers on Friday in the wake of recent bombings blamed on the far right and threats of more violence.
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) holds its first national conference in five years at Stellenbosch University next week — with elections likely to indicate whether the left or "right-wing" of the movement holds sway.
Mintek ? one of the leading mining technology companies in South Africa ? is embarking on a programme to help rectify the problem of poor teaching and results in science, engineering and technology (SET) at secondary schools by “adopting” the Kwadeda Ngendlale high school in Zola North, Soweto. A list of more than 100 schools […]
The Democratic Alliance’s federal council has censured Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel and former Western Cape Finance MEC Leon Markovitz for ”poor judgement” at a Saturday meeting.
A former chief secretary of the Democratic Alliance in the Western Cape told the Desai Commission on Monday how he handled a DM99 000 donation for the party.
An off-duty policemen was shot and killed in Khayelitsha on the Cape Flats on Thursday night while investigating a crime in progress, Western Cape police said.
Zackie Achmat is not hungry, but tucks into the chocolate cake just the same. Achmat is HIV positive, yet refuses to take the antiretroviral drugs that could prolong his life. But he does boost his immune system with protein — with chocolate cake.
The number of people arrested in connection with diamond dealing in the Northern and Western Cape during the final phase of Operation Solitaire on Wednesday has reached 33.
Western Cape police are looking for the missing father of a 3-year-old girl whose raped and murdered body was found at Khayelitsha on Saturday, police said.
A fire swept through the Grootboom informal settlement north of Cape Town on Monday afternoon, destroying 450 dwellings and leaving 2 000 people homeless.
Rooibos was likely to be deregistered as a trademark in the US, if past precedent was anything to go by.
Alleged fraudster Jurgen Harksen drew Andre Lincoln, former commander of an elite police unit, into his web on Wednesday, claiming he gave Lincoln money for a karate school.
Fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen could find himself back behind bars at the weekend when the protective custody ordered by the Desai Commission draws to an end.
A saga of suspicion and distrust, spiced by high-level computer hacking, emerged in evidence to the Desai Commission.
New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk has been chosen as new premier of the Western Cape in place of the ousted Peter Marais.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GLA) announced plans for a three-day protest against Western Cape premier Peter Marais, who has come under fire for his views on homosexuals.
The Democratic Alliance has challenged the New National Party and the African National Congress, as well as senior party leaders, to open their respective and joint party books to a forensic audit.