The Israeli military yesterday began obliging foreigners entering the Gaza Strip to sign waivers absolving the army from responsibility if it shoots them. Visitors must also declare that they are not peace activists.
Lawyers acting for the Guardian’s Zimbabwe correspondent, Andrew Meldrum, insisted yesterday he was willing to be interviewed by bona fide officials following proper procedures.
Ntombizandile Mqulo wakes up each morning with a difficult decision: should she take her son to work and make more money to feed him, or should she leave him in a pre-school but have less money to survive?
The crime-busting Scorpions unit is actively probing allegations of child abuse against North West Premier Popo Molefe, the Mail & Guardian has learned.
The national government is yet to act on a two-month-old request from the drought-stricken Limpopo province to declare several municipalities in the region disaster areas.
Walter Sisulu would no doubt have been embarrassed by the effusive tributes that have been paid to him since he passed away on Monday night.
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The global toll from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) climbed above 500 dead and 7 000 infected on Thursday as the World Health Organisation declared that the disease is far more deadly than it previously thought.
Standard and Poor’s (S&P) has joined other international ratings agencies in raising its long term foreign currency ratings on South Africa, the National Treasury said on Thursday.
Banks in Africa, the United Kingdom and Europe must have converted their magnetic stripe cards to ”smart cards” by January 2005 to combat fraud, Absa executive member Leon du Plessis said on Wednesday.