On 9 December 2002, the then minister of education, Professor Kader Asmal, announced that the cabinet had approved the final proposals for the restructuring of the institutional landscape of higher education in South Africa. These proposals were the culmination of a wide-ranging consultative process on the restructuring of the HE system that had begun in the early 1990s, and which had produced ...

At a conference on coal-workers' pneumoconiosis called in Cardiff in January 1947 by the Minister of Fuel and Power, it was suggested that it might be possible to re-employ men certified as cases of coal-worker's pneumoconiosis in the briquetting industry, in which the Minister anticipated an expansion. The Industrial Pulmonary Disease Committee of the Medical Research Council subsequently disc...

Surely the Howard Government is ‘tough on drugs’! The Prime Minister has used this very phrase repeatedly, unambiguously and emphatically to describe his government’s approach to illicit drugs. Also, Mr Howard has often described his personal attitude to illegal drugs as ‘zero tolerance’. After a 6:3 majority of the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy supported a scientific trial of prescripti...

For health minister Rosie Winterton, emergency care provision is 'holding up this winter and taking it in its stride'.