Fuel shortages, icy rain and power failures are hampering Japan’s worst humanitarian crisis since World War II, but workers are reporting progress.
Japan may build robots to run marathons and preside over weddings, but it has not deployed any of the machines to help repair its crippled reactors.
Messages from years of Aids campaigns are finally filtering down to the dingy streets of Johannesburg where sex workers turn tricks.
Africa, Australia and Canada likely hold the key to a geopolitical battle being fought to end China’s stranglehold over obscure elements.
South African President Jacob Zuma called on the government and private sector to create jobs, setting aside billions of dollars to create work.
SA is proposing sweeping changes to labour law intended to increase job security for temporary workers, but economists have expressed concern.
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/ 29 December 2010
South Africa’s ascension to the Bric group of major emerging economies was more about politics than economics.
The ANCYL has been stepping up its support for North Korea, Pyongyang’s media said, ahead of President Zuma’s visit to the G20 meeting in South Korea.
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/ 18 October 2010
A diary entry by suspected Nigerian bombing conspirator Henry Okah talked about staging "a fight to the finish", a court heard on Monday.
The African National Congress will press on Wednesday for a new tribunal to punish unscrupulous reporting.