Africa remains one of the most vulnerable continents to the effects of climate change, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Tuesday.
Opec secretary general Abdullah al-Badri on Tuesday appealed for calm, saying the record-high oil price was unbearable and did not reflect any shortage of supply.
President Pervez Musharraf faced a fresh assault on his authority on Monday when Pakistan’s lawyers launched a week of street protests.
South Africa has chaired talks between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party and opposition in a new mediation drive ahead of a run-off election this month, a report said on Tuesday.
The government has identified at least 27 cases where a syndicate has swindled more than R199-million from government departments in four provinces over the past three years — using cyber-spyware.
Percy Montgomery won’t talk about it. The approaching milestone of 100 caps for the Springboks has captivated the country, but for the man itself, it’s all about 96. “I was lucky enough to get my 95th cap against Wales,” smiles Montgomery.
Four developing countries have appealed against the adoption of Microsoft’s Office Open XML document format as an international standard, the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) said on Monday.
A firefighter in Japan lost his job after city officials found out he had been driving ambulances and fire trucks for over 20 years without a driver’s licence, an official in Takaoka City, central Japan, said on Tuesday.
The South African government needs to take people seriously, actor and comedian Desmond Dube said at the Million Man March anti-crime gathering in Pretoria on Tuesday.
South African stocks remained deep in the red at noon on Tuesday in tandem with overseas markets on inflation worries amid the soaring price of crude oil.