South Africa’s three major airports will be ready by 2010 for the thousands of Soccer World Cup visitors, the Airports Company of South Africa (Acsa) said on Tuesday.
The monetary policy committee (MPC) of the South African Reserve Bank starts a two-day meeting in Pretoria on Wednesday to discuss what to do about inflation being outside the target of 3% to 6%.
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai rejected calls on Tuesday for a national unity government instead of a presidential run-off vote and said his party was sure to win the election despite government violence.
The Pretoria High Court has ordered the early release on parole this week of two convicted wife killers and a man who battered to death his mistress’s husband.
The City of Cape Town says it will fight a High Court order that it open up community halls to foreign nationals displaced by last month’s xenophobic violence.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi said on Tuesday a European Union proposal for an economic and security union with southern Mediterranean states was an insult to Arabs and Africans.
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has fired a fresh broadside at arms-deal activist Terry Crawford-Browne, seeking to have him declared a vexatious litigant.
Swaziland’s King Mswati III summoned his subjects to the country’s traditional capital for a meeting on Tuesday, amid speculation he was to dissolve Parliament ahead of a national election.
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.