With government workers asking for higher wage increases than the 10,5% announced on Wednesday, the spectre of strikes and second-round inflationary effects looms.
Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, is gearing up for a tough face-to-face confrontation with his defeated rival, Hillary Clinton.
South Africa’s commitment to the rule of law faces a critical test in the coming months, former president FW de Klerk told the British South African Law Association.
After the Constitutional Court judgements in the Clicks case, in which the majority set aside regulations dealing with pricing and dispensing of medicine, legal commentators raised the question as to whether a significant minority of the court — who appeared to adopt a more pro-executive position — would influence the future direction of the court.
<b>Estimated Aids-related deaths in South Africa: 2 498 738 at noon on June 4 </b> Nearly three-million people in the developing world are now on drugs to prevent their HIV infection becoming Aids, two years after the original deadline to reach that figure was set by the World Health Organisation.
Recent reports that President Thabo Mbeki had received a scathing letter from the Zimbabwe opposition leader could be part of a disinformation campaign, the Presidency said on Wednesday.
Unplanned power cuts at very short notice may be a possibility this winter, Eskom said on Wednesday.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos confirmed on Wednesday that the country’s first parliamentary elections since the end of a 27-year civil war will be held on September 5.
Russian fourth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova ended the dream run of Estonian Kaia Kanepi at the French Open on Wednesday with a 7-5 6-2 victory.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and several of his top lieutenants were detained by police on Wednesday in the approach to a key run-off presidential election on June 27, his party said.