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Helen Zille

Scorpions' hearings end in CT

Cape Town - Public hearings on the legislation to dissolve the Scorpions closed on Monday, with Cape Town residents turning up in their hundreds for the final leg of provincial proceedings in Gugulethu. The residents, mainly...

Raising the Bar

MANDY ROSSOUW | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - The seeds of the current political assault on the judiciary were sown in 1994, when the ANC used race to bring the judges to heel, former DA leader Tony Leon said this week. "It...

ANC Anti-Crime Plan 'Will Cause Chaos'

Posted to the web 14 August 2008 Amy Musgrave Johannesburg THE Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has criticised African National Congress (ANC) efforts to fight crime by restarting street committees. IFP MP Ben Skosana said yesterday...

South Africa: DA Has Crime Plan Based on Cape Successes

THE reinstatement of specialised crime-fighting units, a national referendum to make the home affairs department fingerprint data base available to police, and compulsory work for prisoners are some of the proposals contained...

Finding their niche

Aug 12, 2008

The map will replace this text. From that memorable day in August 1956, when 20 000 black women made their voices heard in a peaceful yet forceful demonstration that underlined their intention to fight for their rights to this...

Join Heart 104.9FM for their very first Premier's Monday

Heart 104.9FM's growing influence in Cape Town is evidenced in a new feature starting on the Bokomo Hearty Breakfast on Monday, 11 August 2008. Lynne Brown, the new Premier of the Western Cape, will join Lee Downs and the team...

Education and skills empower women: Mbeki

Mbeki says women empowerment lies in educating and skilling women President Thabo Mbeki says educating and skilling women lies at the heart of the overall empowerment of women. He was addressing Women's Day celebrations at...

Drugs abuse costing SA 20 billion a year: Zille

Drug abuse is costing South Africa R20 billion a year and could pose a bigger threat to the country's future than the Aids pandemic, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille warned today. According to SA Police Services figures,...

South Africa: Bar Council Weighs in on Parliamentary Row

THE General Council of the Bar, SA's national organisation of advocates, yesterday called for an end to the "serious allegations of political partiality against the judiciary", adding its voice to the Law Society of SA which...

Jobs, Poverty is What Brown Faces

Posted to the web 7 August 2008 New Western Cape Premier Lynne Brown has prioritised the promotion of non-racialism, reaching the poor, and economic growth as three of the key challenges of her new cabinet. Emerging from her...