The Desai commission’s report, which finds the Democratic Alliance (DA) did accept tainted money, is to be referred to the Scorpions for further investigation.
The DA donor that didn’t exist
The University of Natal in Durban on Friday received a R110-million research grant for Aids from two United States organisations.
The United Democratic Movement will on Wednesday attempt to persuade the Constitutional Court that its application against the defection legislation should be heard as a matter of urgency.
The suspension of the defection window period pending a High Court judgement caused havoc for politicians and the media on Friday who had braced themselves for an early start to MPs, MPLs and local councillors switching party loyalty.
Former Western Cape director general Dr Niel Barnard on Wednesday rejected ”categorically and with contempt” suggestions that politicians in the province were bugged on his orders.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon was aware of at least one of Jurgen Harksen’s donations to the party.
The appointment of two senior NNP members as national deputy ministers will result in changes in the Western Cape, with former premier Peter Marais among those tipped for a provincial cabinet seat.
President Thabo Mbeki has ordered the special investigating unit, also known as the Scorpions, to probe wide-ranging allegations of corruption and maladministration in five Western Cape councils.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon came out swinging last night, saying the New National Party was on ”its way to oblivion in the one province it used to dominate”.
Lawyers representing SA apartheid victims seeking billions of dollars for ”blood and misery” from German, Swiss and US firms will present their claims in New York on Friday.
South Africans are generally becoming more positive about the overall democratic regime and more optimistic about where it will be in ten years time.
A police disciplinary hearing on Tuesday recommended that the commander of the Cape Peninsula dog unit be fired over an alleged racist slur.
Western Cape premier and New National Party (NNP) provincial leader Peter Marais has resigned following new claims of sexual misconduct that may lead to criminal prosecution.
South African farm workers will get a minimum wage from next March, the minister of labour announced on Monday despite opposition from employers.
The Democratic Alliance in the Cape says it has ”taken a decision” on the findings of a party probe into provincial leader Gerald Morkel’s links with fugitive German businessman Jurgen Harksen.
The Democratic Alliance is set on ruffling Western Cape premier and New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk’s feathers with a giant chicken that will shadow his every public appearance for the next two weeks.
Jurgen Harksen promised an associate a contract to work on Cape Town’s convention centre in return for a donation to the Democratic Alliance, the Desai Commission heard on Wednesday.
About 2 000 Cosatu members and supporters chanted ”Viva ANC” outside Parliament on Tuesday as they delivered a demand on government to halt privatisation and job losses.
South Africa’s population rose by an average of
657 532 annually between 1996 and 2002, bringing the total figure from 42-million in 1996 to 46-million in 2002.
A proposal by Cape Nature Conservation to establish a four-by-four trail in the rugged Cederberg Wilderness Area has drawn strong criticism from an internationally-respected conservation expert.
Western Cape leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) Gerald Morkel was dragged further into the mud when Jurgen Harksen resumed testimony before the Desai Commission.
The number of South Africans carrying the HIV virus that causes Aids appeared to be stabilising, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday.
In-fighting within the UDM in the Western Cape reached new heights on Saturday with the provincial executive suspending some members, just as branches were set to meet to vote in new leadership in the province.
Journalists were given a surprise on Wednesday when Western Cape premier Peter Marais took them on a tour of a high-security bunker.
The Western Cape government is to spend a total of R142-million — of its total cost of R582-million — on the new foreshore convention centre being built in the Mother City, according to Finance MEC Ebrahim Rasool.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon came out fighting hours after his party had lost control of Cape Town, and dared the New National Party and the African National Congress to call an election in the Mother City.
The answer, sang folk musician Bob Dylan in the Sixties, back when the world was a less polluted place, is blowing in the wind.
Nepad dominated the president’s budget vote debate in the National Assembly on Tuesday ahead of a crucial G8 summit, but not all political parties were convinced of plan’s success.
Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel on Monday apologised for the harm caused by the Jurgen Harksen funding affair but continued to deny he received money from the German fugitive and alleged fraudster.
No final decision had yet been taken on where to bury the remains of Saartje Bartmann, the Khoi woman exhibited in freak shows in Europe in the early 1800s as the ”Hottentot Venus”.
Embattled Cape Town unicity mayor Gerald Morkel announced he would assume a lower public profile until his name could be cleared, but that he would remain in office.
As the last hours of the 15-day floor-crossing period ticked away on Tuesday, the Democratic Alliance was still holding onto power in ten local councils in the Western Cape.