Allegations that right-wingers plotted to assassinate former president Nelson Mandela, blowing up his vehicle on a trip to Limpopo, were made in an indictment, SABC radio news reported on Wednesday. It was not clear from the report whether the indictment had been officially served on 23 alleged members of the Boeremag by court officials. The document apparently alleged that a group of Boeremag members built a bomb last October, hoping to blow up Mandela's vehicle on a road in Limpopo, where he went to open a school.

A prominent member of South Africa's governing African National Congress has been sentenced to four years in prison after he admitted defrauding parliament. Tony Yengeni, the former chief whip of South Africa's parliament, was sentenced in Pretoria.

This paper compares public opinion survey data from the Afrobarometer with epidemiological data about the HIV/Aids pandemic in seven Southern African countries. The authors use this data to examine the degree to which people are aware of the pandemic, and are willing to speak about it.

The transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa has raised questions, on the one hand, about the tension between the imperatives of justice and equality and, on the other, reconciliation. Transforming the decades' old apartheid system under conditions of a political compromise has turned out to be a formidable challenge. This paper is about the complexity of the transformation processgoing on in South Africa. Although too early for a real assessmentof the experiment, the tensions, dilemmas, contradictions, paradoxes and some of the changes have already begun to manifest themselves.

Participative Development Initiative is a Durban-based non-governmental organisation that seeks to contribute to the alleviation of poverty through promoting sustainable development and strengthening the institutional capacity of established community, institutional and corporate structures in South Africa. The organisation seeks to employ a Project Manager for the Sinethemba HIV/AIDS Project and a facilitator for a Social Crime Prevention Project. Both positions are based in Durban.

The Centre for the Study of Violence & Reconciliation (CSVR) is a well established multi-disciplinary NGO specializing in dealing with and preventing violence, protecting human rights and building sustainable peace. CSVR has more than a decade of experience in innovative research, policy formulation, education and training, advocacy, lobbying, and in providing counselling and consultancy services and boasts a 15 year track record of work in South Africa, Southern Africa and internationally. Based in Johannesburg, the CSVR is looking for a dynamic professional to fill an exciting position in its senior management.

Up to 150 women out of 100 000 die annually whilst still pregnant, during labour or shortly after giving birth in South Africa. That is the finding of a report published recently by the national Department of Health and that follows three years of monitoring and collecting data on the patterns of maternal deaths.

Possibilities of adoption for a child infected with HIV depend on nothing more than compassion, as opposed to a primary need to have a child or give a home to a child who deserves to grow in a stable family unit. More and more social services organisations have come to realise that placing HIV positive children in adoptive homes can be a futile attempt.

AIDS-related complications have become the leading cause of death among pregnant women in South Africa, according to a report released on Friday by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South Africa's Sunday Times reports.

This study, from the Energy and Development Research Centre (EDRC) at the University of Cape Town, forms part of a broader study on the economic impact of climate change in South Africa, and concentrates on the existence value of the biodiversity that is threatened by climate change. It is predicted that climate change will cause significant biodiversity loss in South Africa and it is possible to measure direct economic costs of this loss.

South Africa's highest court has ruled that gay couples should receive the same financial benefits as heterosexuals. The case was brought by lesbian judge Kathy Satchwell, who wanted her partner to get the same benefits as the married partners of other judges.

South Africa is playing down its efforts to get the three African countries -- Angola, Cameroon and Guinea -- sitting on the United Nations Security Council to vote against a resolution that would clear the way for the United States to launch an attack on Iraq. South African foreign affairs officials insist the country is not lobbying for the African nations represented on the Security Council to vote against the resolution. ''We are not lobbying anybody. Those countries are aware of African Union (AU) and Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) resolutions against the war,'' says a spokesperson for the South African Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ronnie Mamoepa.

South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, speaking on public radio on Monday, said that Roberto Giraldo, who denies that HIV causes AIDS, will not be appointed as a ministerial adviser but is simply being consulted by the government for his advice on nutrition and HIV/AIDS, the South African Press Association reports.

About 100 people from the Anti-War Coalition (AWC) gathered outside Denel in Kempton Park on Friday to demonstrate against the state-owned arms company's supply of military equipment worth millions of rands to Britain and the United States, which could be used in the war against Iraq.

This commissioned report aimed to provide insight into issues related to communication of HIV/Aids to children in the 3-12 year age group, with an emphasis on South Africa. The overall brief includes identifying of key issues related to children and HIV/Aids, including discrimination, grief, knowledge, attitudes and practices.

The government has launched the South Africa Reference Group for Women in Science and Technology to enhance women's involvement in these sectors. The establishment of the group is an active implementation of the National Research and Development Strategy, which was approved by the Cabinet last year.

The Anti-War Coalition has called for the “broadest possible democratically minded forces to register strong protests against the likely slaughter of innocent men, women and children in Iraq”.

The Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs, Rejoice Mabudafhasi, will personally hand over a clean-up directive to the management of the Thor Chemicals plant in Cato Ridge. Thor Chemicals is notorious worldwide for giving mercury poisoning to its workers and for widespread mercury contamination of the surrounding land and streams.

Khosa Xaba joined the African National Congress (ANC) women's league as a student to fight against apartheid. But her fight for racial and social justice did not stop with the dismantling of the racial system which denied Blacks their human rights. The next fight on her agenda was the discrimination met by black women in accessing reproductive health services. "When apartheid was dismantled, we used the opportunity to bring to the public that black women were unable to access the services," says Xaba who worked with the Women's Health Project in South Africa.

This document describes strategies devised by five private sector tourism enterprises in South Africa, to address poverty and development issues in neighbouring communities. The enterprises include land-based safari operations, a diving operation, and a large casino-golf resort. Each of the enterprises had been assessed against a number of the country’s national Responsible Tourism Guidelines – in relation to economic, social, and environmental impacts.