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ANC Youth League help at Afrikaner old-age home

ANC Youth League members did volunteer work on Wednesday at a family welfare organisation in Khutsong on the West Rand run by an Afrikaner women’s body. They did so as part of their 67-minute contribution to mark former president Nelson Mandela’s birthday on Wednesday. SA Vrouefederasie regional manager for Carletonville, Suzette Oosthuizen, said: “There were

ANC vandalising Afrikaans, says Zulu nationalist party

Inkatha Freedom Party chief whip Koos van der Merwe has accused the ANC government of vandalising Afrikaans. “The ANC is continuing its cultural vandalism of Afrikaans,” he said in a statement on Monday. “The latest blatant example is government placing six full pages of advertising for vacant positions in Rapport [newspaper] of Sunday 15 July

Fewer South African babies infected with HIV

A slightly higher proportion of babies were saved from HIV infection in 2011 than in the previous year, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Thursday. “It has proven that putting mothers and infants on treatment early on really works,” Motsoaledi told media in Johannesburg. An estimated 104,000 babies out of 117,000 (89 percent) were saved

Commonwealth to probe SA human rights violations after complaint by PRAAG

After a complaint by PRAAG, an Afrikaner NGO, the Commonwealth of Nations is to probe human rights violations currently being committed in South Africa against Afrikaners, foreigners and other minorities. According to a response from the office of Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma, PRAAG’s complaint has been referred to the Human Rights Unit for further

South African businesses to pay crippling affirmative-action fines

Businesses could pay an enormous price – up to 10% of their turnover – if they do not strictly observe provisions regarding affirmative action, says a report on the Sake24.com site. Attempts at Nedlac to reach a compromise about proposed radical amendments to the Employment Equity Act came to naught and the next step is

Clinton visits Mandela

Former US president Bill Clinton paid former president Nelson Mandela a visit on Tuesday at his home in the Eastern Cape village of Qunu. A statement from the Clinton Foundation said last week that Clinton would visit Qunu on Tuesday, to attend the opening of a container library at the No-Moscow Primary School. It was

Cycling: Tour de France to honour Mandela

Former South African president Nelson Mandela’s 94th birthday will be celebrated before the start of the Tour de France’s 16th stage in Pau, organisers said on Tuesday. France-South Africa Seasons 2012/2013 organisers have joined forces with Mandela’s family and Tour de France race officials to honour the anti-apartheid icon and a large banner reading “Happy

Dlamini-Zuma becomes head of African Union

South African media on Monday said the election of Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the first female head of the African Union Commission was a watershed and a victory for the region. Dlamini-Zuma beat incumbent Jean Ping of Gabon in a closely fought election over several rounds of voting late Sunday at the AU

South African Communist Party wants to nationalise chemicals giant Sasol

Kwadlangezwa – The SA Communist Party would like to see Sasol [JSE:SOL] nationalised, but if this could not be achieved immediately the petro-chemical giant should then be subjected to a windfall tax on extra profits. SACP deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin said this was one of the many draft resolutions that emerged from the party’s

Clashes between Zuma and Malema supporters in Limpopo province

A scuffle broke out between police and ANC Youth League supporters outside a hall in Thohoyandou, Limpopo, on Tuesday ahead of an address by President Jacob Zuma. The fight broke out after supporters of expelled youth league leader Julius Malema were chased out of a memorial lecture hall where Zuma was to speak. About 300

Affirmative Action premium: black females receive 36% more than whites

Data from the Adcorp Employment Index suggest that – all else being equal – black females receive 36,4% more than whites in South Africa. This month, we take a closer look at the wage premium of affirmative action candidates in South Africa. The premium for blacks is now 23.1% – and for black females is

Apartheid revisionism needed

About two weeks ago, Hermann Giliomee, the well-known liberal Afrikaner historian, wrote a scandalous piece in the Afrikaans Sunday newspaper, Rapport. The title was, “Apartheid: was it only evil?” (Afrikaans link) I have since responded with two articles of my own to his, and we are more or less in agreement that there has been

Zapiro’s cartoon of Zuma is ‘vulgar’ – Afriforum

Zapiro’s latest cartoon is a “vulgar portrayal” of President Jacob Zuma, lobby group AfriForum said on Monday. The cartoon was “a vulgar portrayal of the president [and] unproductive and in poor taste.” AfriForum spokesman Ernst Roets said in a statement. The cartoon by Jonathan Shapiro depicts an erect penis with a showerhead and legs standing

Riot in Boksburg: 49 arrested

Forty-nine people were arrested in Windmill Park, Boksburg, on Monday for public violence and malicious damage to property, Ekurhuleni metro police said. Inspector Khobeli Mokheseng said the protesters, aged between 20 and 51, allegedly stoned a metro police vehicle and attacked two metro police officers who arrived at the scene first. “When one of the