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EventMbeki and his entourage arrive in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
South African President Thabo Mbeki, accompanied by Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota and Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad, arrived in Abidjan (Ivory…
EventHajara Ibrahim appears before a Nigerian Islamic court to launch an appeal against her conviction for adultery
Sharia law refers to a body of Islamic religious laws and deals with aspects of everyday life, such as politics, banking, family, sexuality and hygiene. Since…
EventCOSATU delegates are left at Beitbridge
In spite of being refused to visit, the thirteen delegates of the Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU), left for Zimbabwe with the intent of meeting…
EventSABC is allowed to broadcast Thatcher Case
In a precedent-setting judgement, a full bench of the Cape High Court, comprising of Judges Van Zyl, Essa Moosa and Dan Dlodlo, ruled in favour of the request…
EventDumisani Makhaye passes away
The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Local Government, Housing and Traditional Affairs and member of the African National Congress (ANC), Dumisani Makhaye, succumbed to…
EventMorgan Tsvangirai is cleared of Treason charges
The Zimbabwean opposition leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai, was charged with treason for allegedly plotting to kill President…
Event6 th Partnership Against AIDS anniversary is celebrated
The Partnership against HIV/AIDS was launched in 1998 by the then Deputy President Thabo Mbeki . He made a call on all South Africans to join hands to fight…
Event14 Year old girl is convicted in Pietermaritzburg High Court
The South African Broadcasting Cooperation (SABC) reported that a fourteen year old girl has been found guilty in the Pietermaritzburg High Court of murdering…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki congratulates his US counterpart
South African President Thabo Mbeki congratulated his US counterpart, President George W. Bush on his election for a second term as president of the United…
EventA blaze destroys Wanderers Cricket Club
A fire virtually destroyed the historic Wanderers Cricket Club in Johannesburg, reducing to ash irreplaceable items like historic documents, photos, trophies…
EventEvidence found at Barberton confirms theory of life on earth as early as about 3.4 billion years ago
News 24 announced that geologists Michael M. Tice and Professor Donald R. Lowe of Stanford University in the United States, assisted locally by South African…
EventNelson Mandela is voted the greatest South African
Former SA president and long serving political prisoner, Nelson Mandela, was voted the Greatest South African in a TV show that had the country nominate their…
EventFormer anti-apartheid activist, Allan Boesak accuses ANC
Dr Allan Boesak, former anti-apartheid activist, leader of the World Alliance of Churches and patron of the now disbanded United Democratic Front (UDF), was…
EventTeboho Mokgalagadi wins gold in the Paralympic Games
George Teboho Mokgalagadi, with his hair dyed golden, won a Paralympic world record gold medal 100m sprint in his first international competition at the…
EventSA athlete Ernst van Dyk is hard done by at Paralympic games
Wheelchair-bound South African athlete, Ernst van Dyk, was cut off from a certain gold medal by the Mexican Saul Mendoza during the 1 500m race at the Athens…
EventInternational Day of Peace Vigil is observed
After the United Nations General-Assembly resolution 55/282 of 2001, beginning 2002, 21 September of each year is observed as the International Day of Peace…
EventBeverly Mashinini wins a bronze medal
A 23-year-old Pretoria girl, Beverly Mashinini, won a bronze medal in Athens, Greece. She was a member of the South African Paralympic team Amakrokokroko,…
EventSA sprinter Oscar Pistorius reaches the final
The seventeen year old Pretoria schoolboy sprinter of Pretoria Boys' High, Oscar Pistorius, fell coming out of the start of his 200m heat for leg amputees,…
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
The South African state president, Thabo Mbeki, opened the second sitting of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) for the first time at its new permanent seat, the…
EventFraud and Corruption on the rise in SA
Advocate Steven Powell of the forensic and auditing firm Deloitte and Touche surprised many delegates attending a conference of the Institute of Municipal…
EventRay Simons dies
Rachel Alexander (Ray) Simons, legendary communist and trade unionist born in Latvia in 1914, died in Cape Town at the age of 91. Simons was instrumental in…
EventAZAPO, SOPA, and BPC announce a merger agreement
Leaders of the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO), the Socialist Party of Azania (SOPA) and the Black People's Convention (BPC) announced that they would…
EventSouth Africa mourns the passing of Beyers Naudé, apartheid struggle stalwart and Afrikaner cleric
Beyers Naudé, or Oom Bey, as he was affectionately known, passed away at 3:30 am on Tuesday morning 7 September 2004 at a retirement home in Johannesburg . He…
EventNational Housing Department introduces new plan
National Housing Department Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, introduced a new housing plan to the media. The plan had been endorsed by the cabinet and entailed the…
EventIndependent Democrats benefits from floorcrossing rule
The Independent Democrats (ID), a political party which was formed by Patricia de Lille, who had defected from the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), benefited…
EventSASOL plant explodes again
The SASOL petrol plant in Secunda, Mpumalanga Province, went up in flames after a giant gas explosion, this time not as result of a political attack or…
EventOlympic games end in Athens
The International Olympic games, which were held in Athens, Greece, came to an end with a spectacular closing ceremony. The evening was started off with Greek…
EventDefence Minister disputes HIV statistics in SANDF
The South African Minister of Defence Mosioua Lekota dismissed as 'fallacy' claims that 89% of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) had tested…
EventThe 4 x 100m men’s relay team win the gold medal for SA at the Olympic Games in Athens
The South African squad of Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling clocked 3 minutes and 13.17 seconds to triumph over the Netherlands…
EventHome Affairs Minister Mapisa
Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula met British officials amid concerns about false South African passports discovered during anti-terror operations…