Over 330 000 employers of domestic workers have registered with the Unemployment Insurance Fund, the Unemployment Insurance Commissioner announced in Pretoria on Monday.
The US has pinpointed five Iraqis to form the nucleus of a provisional government, but none is from the political and religious groups mushrooming in the country.
Five people, including a young mother, are expected to plead on Tuesday to charges against them relating to a brutal attack on two women academics in Peddie, in the Eastern Cape last year.
Cotton producing countries in the world’s poorest continent Africa are up in arms against US and European subsidies which they claim are not only anti-competitive but ruinous for their economies.
Less than a fortnight before the day it predicts the world will end, Japan’s latest high-profile cult rolled slowly and bizarrely away from a confrontation with the police yesterday, leaving behind sniggers, fears and a mountainside draped in white sheets.
In a move hailed as the first step towards solving Zimbabwe’s deepening crisis, President Robert Mugabe came under concerted pressure from three African leaders to begin negotiations with the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change.
Angry villagers in Mozambique have killed a dozen people suspected of being witches after a killing spree by man-eating lions, police said on Monday.
African National Congress veteran Walter Sisulu, born in 1912, the year the ANC was founded, died on Monday. He would have turned 91 on May 18.
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu, veteran anti-apartheid activist who spent more than two decades in jail, died in Johannesburg on Monday night, just a few days before his 91st birthday.
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