Representatives from the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific group of countries were meeting in Brussels on Monday morning in a last-ditch effort to save a EU-ACP joint parliamentary assembly.
The World Tourism Organisation (WTO) and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) have joined forces in a new initiative to promote tourism as a tool to eliminate poverty.
Scientists and health officials meeting in Somerset West on Monday criticised what they believed was the cool response of the developed world towards investing in an African Aids vaccine.
Empowerment company Zama Resources will know on Wednesday whether it will remain the preferred bidder in a multi-million rand forestry privatisation deal tarnished by a bribery scandal.
Parliament has written what is likely to be the final chapter on almost two years of political wrangling around the joint investigating team’s probe into the multi-billion rand arms deal.
It is too early to use Zimbabwe as a test case for the peer review mechanism proposed in the New Partnership for Africa’s Development.
Sacob CEO Kevin Wakeford has declined to respond immediately to a SA Reserve Bank (SARB) threat to sue him for suggesting the bank’s actions may have contributed towards the rand’s sharp decline last year.
The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) is to ask all political parties for information on private party funding, in terms of the Access to Information Act.
African foreign ministers were on Wednesday ready to begin refining the nuts and bolts for the launch of the African Union next week.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon came out fighting hours after his party had lost control of Cape Town, and dared the New National Party and the African National Congress to call an election in the Mother City.