More than 22 000 Rwandan prisoners, most of them suspects in the 1994 genocide, began returning home on Monday after undergoing a three-month ”re-education” course and spending several years in jail.
Since Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986, Uganda has been the envy of many developing nations, achieving high economic growth rates. But in the north of the country, a very different situation prevails
South Africa has the capacity to contain the threat of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars), and keep it from affecting the country’s tourism industry negatively, according to South African Tourism head Cheryl Carolus.
<strong>CD of the week</strong>: Oskido’s Church Grooves: The Third Commandment.
News of the death of anti-apartheid struggle veteran Walter Sisulu was broken to South African President Thabo Mbeki on Monday night, while he was in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Democratic Alliance is to ask the Auditor-General to investigate what it calls a second ”lapse of judgement” by the National Intelligence Agency.
The nine members of the National Association of People Living with Aids who staged a sit-in earlier on Monday at the Midrand offices of pharmaceutical giant Merck Sharp Dohme are to return to the offices on Tuesday.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela said he was warned by the man who articled him as a lawyer that he "should stay away from Walter Sisulu".
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=13953">Mbeki pays tribute to Sisulu</a><br>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=13943">Hamba kahle Walter Sisulu</a><br>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=13949">Obituary</a><br>
South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, with its bio-diversity and malaria free status, continues to attract strong demand for game farms, not only among overseas investors, but increasingly also South African buyers.
Identifying SA as a cost-effective location for servicing the customer contact needs of international businesses, the Dialogue UK Group has invested in a call centre operation in Cape Town, with plans to expand employment to 1 500 people.