The quest to empower blacks will be stepped up despite the pain this process might bring for some people, senior African National Congress figures said on Tuesday.
Over 90 farms and other residences are being raided in all provinces as part of a countrywide intelligence-driven operation which started in the early hours on Friday, police reported.
Prison gangs are using HIV infection by rape as punishment in a grim ritual known as ”slow puncture”, the Jali Commission heard on Wednesday.
Battered by claims that it received funds from alleged German fraudster Jurgen Harksen, the Democratic Alliance (DA) on Thursday appointed independent auditors Ernst and Young to conduct a forensic audit of donations to the party.
Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel has denied Jurgen Harksen’s claim that he had dealings with alleged Mafia kingpin Vito Palazzolo.
Aids and human rights are so closely linked that any attempt to stop the spread of the killer virus must also fight against poverty and exclusion, the French chapter of Amnesty International said on Sunday to mark World Aids Day.
The ANC in the Western Cape on Wednesday said it was outraged at the DA’s approval for the erection of a wall in Kraaifontein to separate poor black communities from white communities.
A decision to treat inmates at Pollsmoor humanely had made a dramatic difference in day-to-day life at the prison, the Jali Commission heard on Thursday.
The New National Party’s head council in the Western Cape is likely to meet this week to appoint a new premier for the province, following the resignation of Peter Marais on new sex claims.
Southern Africa is fast developing an international reputation for excellence in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics.
A former associate of German fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen has told the Desai commission that he wrote out a half-a-million rand cheque as a donation for the Democratic Alliance on Harksen’s instructions.
The Democratic Alliance has quit the deputy chairmanship of the Western Cape’s public accounts committee in protest against what it says is African National Congress manipulation.
The number of South Africans missing after the massive bomb blast in Bali, Indonesia, was fluctuating between 19 and 32, said the Department of Foreign Affairs.
South Africa has been rocked by another bomb explosion, this time at a police station in the Western Cape. An explosive device went off on Saturday night at the Bishop Lavis police station, shattering its front doors and windows.
Police were searching on Sunday for several rightwingers suspected in a plan to explode cooking gas canisters rigged with explosives in public places.
Five petrol attendants were found shot dead in Grassy Park on the Cape Flats on Monday. All five had been shot in the head.
The Desai Commission of Inquiry is to cost the Western Cape government an anticipated R1,5-million rand, according to the adjustments estimate presented by Finance MEC Ebrahim Rasool.
Western Cape gangs held more sophisticated
”bosberade” than the provincial government itself did, the Desai Commission heard on Thursday.
Higher education institutions cannot be left to undertake mergers among themselves voluntarily, says Education Minister Kader Asmal.
The country’s fiercest political rivals and one time allies, the Democratic Alliance and the New National Party on Friday used poll results to claim superiority over each other in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.
Western Cape Finance MEC Ebrahim Rasool called on Monday for proposals to establish a government-backed film studio in Cape Town.
No one had the right to call for the killing of farmers or Boers, nor the right to threaten violence to advance their particular goals, President Thabo Mbeki told the National Assembly on Wednesday.
National police commissioner Jackie Selebi has ordered a probe of what are reported to be allegations of victimisation levelled against his Western Cape counterpart Lennit Max.
Convicted Western Cape cleric and former anti-apartheid activist Allan Boesak warned South Africa and the official opposition against ”the politics of delusion” on Wednesday.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon has denied claims by German fugitive Jurgen Harksen that the DA leader knew about financial donations allegedly made to the party by Harksen.
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/ 13 December 2001
Western Cape Premier Peter Marais confirmed that the province will continue to provide ARVs, including nevirapine, to HIV-positive pregnant women.
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/ 12 November 2001
Playing the part of a cultural tour leader, Andrew Graham-Dixon began an interesting three-part series on BBC World last weekend. Called Art that Shook the World, the series began by examining the effect of the work of French Impressionist Claude Monet. In particular Graham-Dixon speculated about Monet’s 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise. The painting is credited […]
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/ 27 September 2001
Hundreds of Capetonians last Saturday bade farewell to five-year-old Sibongile Mazeka.
It would be easy to dismiss the late John Berry’s cinematic adaptation of Athol Fugard’s play <b>Boesman and Lena</b>; those American accents and their perfect white teeth; the fact that Danny Glover in no way resembles anything approaching a San-Bushman or a "Hotnot"; the geographical problem of talking Eastern Cape when we’re clearly in the Western Cape; but that would be missing quite a few points.
The South African Screenwriters’ Association is struggling to recruit black film-makers, reports Johnny Masilela.