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WESTERN Cape Premier Helen Zille raised questions about oversight institutions becoming politically aligned when responding to accusations of racism against her government at a weekend anti-poverty summit.

The SA Medical Association supports public servants' demand for a wage increase, and has slammed the government for its handling of the situation.

The South African Medical Association supports public servants in their demand for a wage increase.

More business leaders should be raising their voices against the government's planned media controls, editor-in-chief of Independent Newspapers Cape Chris Whitfield has said.

Government is planning a meeting with senior editors to discuss perceptions that it is intent on limiting media freedom.

Public servants have demanded an 8.6 percent increase, backdated to April 1, a medical subsidy, and a R1000 housing allowance.

Former enemies in both post-apartheid South Africa and in Chile after dictatorship must show remorse for past wrongs if peace and reconciliation is to be achieved, former Chilean-American author Ariel Dorfman said in his Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture.

Former enemies in both post-apartheid South Africa and in Chile after dictatorship must show remorse for past wrongs if peace and reconciliation is to be achieved, former Chilean-American author Ariel Dorfman said in his Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture.

Former enemies in both post-apartheid South Africa and in Chile after dictatorship must show remorse for past wrongs if peace and reconciliation is to be achieved, former Chilean-American author Ariel Dorfman said in his Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture.

Zimbabwe's Supreme Court is considering whether to accept an appeal in the case of Roy Bennett, who was cleared in an alleged plot to overthrow President Robert Mugabe, his lawyer has said.