SA’s economic confidence rose in September, largely due to expected easing in interest rates and inflation in 2009, a survey showed on Thursday.
There is a legitimate suspicion that Woolmer essentially wrote a rather narrowly focused coaching manual.
Governments rushed out new emergency measures in a desperate bid to stop the haemmorhaging of confidence on Thursday.
The number of villagers sickened by drinking water contaminated with arsenic in southern China has risen to 200, says the official Xinhua news agency.
Oil prices fell below a barrel on Thursday in Asia on investor fears that crude demand will weaken amid turmoil in the financial system.
A suicide car bomber rammed an anti-terrorist squad building at Islamabad’s police headquarters on Thursday.
Bank-related internet crime is the fastest-growing crime in the world, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre said on Thursday.
A heavy thunderstorm in Grahamstown on Wednesday left 11 people injured and 65 homeless, Eastern Cape police said.
A miner has died in an accident at DRDGold’s Blyvooruitzicht mine near Carletonville, an official confirmed on Thursday.
Zimbabwe’s annual inflation raced to a record 231-million percent in July, up from 11,2-million percent the previous month.