The leaders of Brazil and South Africa have committed themselves to the principle of evolving a new and vibrant view of global trade.
Ethiopia is one of the worst countries in the world to be a mother, according to a global study by the non-governmental organisation Save the Children.
An Australian newspaper claims it has been handed a two-day-old tape recording of Saddam Hussein calling on Iraqis to launch a ”secret war” against US and British forces in the country.
The Democratic Alliance has urged President Thabo Mbeki to push for a watchdog organisation in the African Union to monitor the compliance of diamond-producing African countries with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.
The Supreme Court in Zimbabwe on Wednesday struck out a section of a controversial media law that makes it an offence for a journalist to publish falsehoods, declaring it unconstitutional.
Africa’s first cloned animal, a two-and-a-half-week-old calf, was introduced to the media near Brits in the North-West on Wednesday.
Associates of former Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi must hand back millions of hectares of land seized or ”inappropriately” given to them, or see it repossessed, the government warned this week.
As some of Burundi’s Hutu leaders prepare to take up their seats in a government set up by the newly-installed Hutu president, others are still, after a decade of bloodshed, engaged in hostilities with the Tutsi-led army.
The flawed pension fund surplus legislation must urgently be amended, although politicians feel that ”they’ve done a good job on this issue”, Alexander Forbes Financial Services said on Tuesday.
So determined is Tim Greene to get his feature film <i>Twist</i> on to the big screen, that he’s come up with a novel idea to raise finance — appealing to 1 000 people to pledge to invest R1 000 each. Nicole Temkin asked him how far he has to go.