For two months Zuma has addressed the business world, Afrikaners, the Jewish community and farmers, as well as granting interviews to the international media, in an attempt to articulate what he stands for. Other African National Congress leaders must be appalled by his repeated bouts of foot-in-mouth disease.
While most of the country’s challenges — political uncertainty, a downturn in the economy and power failures — are manageable, crime has emerged as the one factor which consumers and businesses feel powerless to tackle. Anecdotal evidence suggests that violent house robberies are increasing.
The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Royalty Bill initiated intense debate at its inception a few years ago. However, at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town recently Minister of Minerals and Energy Buyelwa Sonjica said significant progress has been made to date in consultation with stakeholders.
A study conducted in Uganda and published this month in the <i>Lancet</i> has found that home-based ARV therapy provided by trained lay counsellors could be the best option for HIV-infected people living in remote, rural areas. Mortality dropped more than 90% among HIV-positive participants and their families receiving home-based care.
Even after the turbulence he encountered last week, Barack Obama still seems the probable Democratic nominee for one simple reason. By June 8, all 54 primaries and caucuses will be completed. And on that morning Obama will, unless something really weird happens, be ahead of Hillary Clinton in the count of pledged delegates.
France on Tuesday won European Union approval to give €99-million to several companies hoping to build a European rival to United States internet search giant Google. The EU executive says this helped fill a funding gap for something that might not otherwise win financial support.
The rise in production cost of grains such as wheat and maize was ”mind boggling”, Grain SA said on Thursday. The latest cost budgets for the production of wheat due to be planted in the coming months indicate that the variable cost component increased on average by 63%,” said Grain SA chairperson Neels Ferreira.
Power failures have had a significant impact on mining production, the Chamber of Mines of South Africa said on Thursday. The chamber said the statistics released by Statistics South Africa on Thursday showed a 10,7% year-on-year drop in the volume of mining for January.
A confession by a gangster that he took part in the raid in which historian David Rattray was murdered was ruled as admissible evidence against him in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday. Sibonele Xolani Mpanza (28) had contested the confession.
Clinical psychologist Dr Lou-Marie Kruger says South Africans drink to self-medicate.