The Voortrekker Monument was once the great temple of apartheid, a towering tribute in granite to the divine right of the Afrikaner people to rule over South Africa that stood symbolic watch over the nation’s capital.
Tributes to the late anti-apartheid activist Walter Sisulu continued to pour in as government agrees to President Thabo Mbeki’s request for a state funeral.
Mozambique is seeking funding to build a toll road to link its southern tourist province of Inhambane with South Africa and Zimbabwe, a government official said on Tuesday.
In the mid-Eighties, the image of the South African worker was the miner in a hard hat, the symbol of an industrial economy. But the changing face of the workforce is forcing unions to rethink ways of organising labour.
US software titan, Microsoft, announced on Tuesday that its renowned technology had finally gone into the toilet.
The rand’s strength had forced eight companies in KwaZulu-Natal to close shop, and many more could follow due to increasing export costs, the SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) said on Tuesday.
Lawyers who have brought class-action suits against international companies in a bid to win reparations for victims of apartheid in South Africa said on Tuesday they could suspend legal action as a result of a church mediation bid.
The World Health Organisation said yesterday that the Sars outbreak in China was still out of control, despite increasingly tough quarantine measures.
With electricity still scarce, Baghdad is in near total darkness. And, with an 11 o’clock curfew, the place is eerily deserted — except for looters and other criminals, rogue elements from Saddam Hussein’s regime and scouts of the US 464 Armoured Battalion.
Click on image for full-size view.