Since Friday, media in Cape Town and on national television and radio have been covering Housing MEC Nomatyala Hangana's resolution to crackdown on members of the Khayelitsha Anti-Eviction Campaign. This resolution comes after communities within the Greater Khayelitsha area have consistently defied banks and returned evicted people to their houses. The coverage from the Cape Times, E-TV and the SABC is notable for its one-sidedness on this issue. AEC members are portrayed as common criminals, and MEC Hangana continues to avoid the very real issue of the housing crisis in the area.

This report is adapted from a presentation for a workshop between Christian Aid and South African partners, held in Durban during October 2001. The report argues that knowing the difference development workers make is in itself a part of good development practice. In order to achieve this competence, certain processes and skills are required of organisations and individuals in development.

* The African National Congress and the policy of non-racialism: a study of the membership issue p. 133, Nhlanhla Ndebele
* Judicial decision-making and the use of panels in the South African Appellate Division, 1950-1990 p. 147, Stacia Haynie
* Political culture and democracy: the South African case p. 163, Carlos Garcia-Rivero, Hennie Kotzé, Pierre Du Toit
* Communitarian deliberative democracy and its implications for political discourse in South Africa p. 183, Yusef Waghid
* What price truth? South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in critical perspective p. 209, Christian M. De Vos

This week marks the beginning of the Giving and Sharing week. This initiative is geared towards mobilizing people and spreading the spirit of philanthropy and volunteerism throughout South Africa.

A Japanese business delegation has committed about R60 million towards upgrading two clinics in Tsolo in the Eastern Cape province. The delegation, led by Total Engineering Corporation general manager Yoji Ishikawa, made the announcement during a two-day visit to the province.

Artist Beezy Bailey has organised a fundraising auction that will take place on November 19 at the Good Hope Suite, GrandWest Casino, Goodwood. Fifty-five of South Africa's top artists, including Marlene Dumas, will donate their work. Patricia de Lille will be the key speaker and she will talk on the issue of AIDS orphans. The Night of 100 Stars and the Adele Searll Memorial Trust will administer the funds.

The government was still investigating on Tuesday whether there was any truth to claims that South African mercenaries were helping the Ivory Coast army counter a rebellion. "Our mission in the Ivory Coast is following the matter closely," foreign affairs department spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa said.

The ECT Act that caused much uproar among the business and Internet community in South Africa is still a spectre of confusion for many involved in IT.

The United Nations held a two-day conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, last week to discuss the relationship between Africa's severe food shortages and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Xinhua News Agency reports. More than 50 people, including U.N. delegates and representatives from local and international non-governmental agencies, were scheduled to meet at the conference.

Guns and gangsters hold a glamorous allure for many of South Africa's youth. The reality for young people in the townships, however, is far from glamorous. It's a life of poverty, inadequate education and a lot of violence. The South African government hasn't committed sufficient funding to address the problem, and so it's left to organisations like Khulisa to try to prevent youth crime and run programmes of rehabilitation.

Creating a cultural archive of Memory Cloths was only the beginning of Andries Botha's engagement with the women of KwaZulu Natal. With friends, he established an NGO - Create Africa South. He found a sponsor for the Amazwi project in The Netherlands, The Prince Claus Fund, and expanded it to offer business courses and micro-credit to women working on the Memory Cloths. He says it's not so strange that a sculptor also runs a non-governmental organisation.

The headlines from South Africa have been sneaking their way, ever more alarmingly, into our consciousness. The most recent – "White extremists set off bombs in Soweto" – came only last week, but the trend had been developing for months – "Ten charged with plot against Pretoria", "Afrikaner arms cache seized", and so on. In isolation, each might be shrugged off as part of the background noise of global strife. Together, they raise a question that the world never imagined would have to be asked again: is the ghost of apartheid stirring? Will a resurgent white right attempt bloodily to turn back the clock and destroy the dreams of Nelson Mandela's "rainbow nation"?

South Africa's Medicines Control Council will have to wait until the end of the year for a report from the United States which will guide its decision on whether to review the registration of nevirapine for the prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV.

South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Sunday at a National Health Providers' Prayer Day gathering in eastern South Africa announced to an audience of approximately 5,000 people, including Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, that the South African Department of Health plans to take steps to address the shortage of health practitioners who are trained to provide care for HIV-positive patients, the South African Press Association reports.

President Thabo Mbeki has urged town and city councillors to crack down on corruption at local government level. "There is a persistent perception that we are confronted by corruption at the level of local government," Mbeki told the opening of the four-day national general council meeting of the SA Local Government Association in Midrand.

A shadowy cell of white right-wing military officers and apartheid-era forces are suspected of trying to incite a race war in South Africa, beginning with a series of bombings that rocked black settlements around Johannesburg last Wednesday.

The High Commission of the Republic of South Africa in Lesotho donated 1 million to the Lesotho government for the poverty reduction process.

The Medical Research Council (MRC) is expected to sign a multi-million Rand agreement with the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in Pretoria to carry out collaborative tuberculosis research activities in South Africa over the next five years.

Tributes and pledges of money continued to pour in for Cancer Association of South Africa (Cansa) fundraiser Jacque Kinnear after she raised about R23000 for the organisation.

The Tenants Association of Sydenham Heights has won a major victory, with the ANC Durban Unicity being forced to pay back in cash all unlawful levies they collected illegally from poor tenants for several months.