Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbago is to leave it up his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki to rule on the stalemate created by the failure of loyalists and rebels to get a disarmament programme under way, a presidential aide said on Tuesday.
Listed telecommunications group Telkom’s response to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (Icasa) findings on ADSL is a mixed bag, with the operator calling for another look into a specific area it describes as "flawed" findings.
Police on Tuesday seized more documents in their continuing probe into claims of tender irregularities in Cape Town, this time from offices in the Civic Centre. Last week detectives raided the offices of procurement director Mabela Satekge in Wale Street in the city centre, as part of what mayoral spokesperson Mandla Tyala said was an investigation into security tenders awarded by the city.
Johannesburg’s city council was helpless when it came to so-called building hijackings and all it could do was offer advice, a city spokesperson said on Tuesday. Inner City Task Force spokesperson Roopa Singh said it was up to the owners to report the illegal occupation of their properties to the police.
The tragic situation in Africa has led Aids researchers to ignore the realities of other regions of the world, including Latin America.
Once again, much of the media have been milking the Leigh Matthews story. Nothing wrong in that. It’s been a gripping saga, made important to many of us. The recent narrative resurrects and then builds on the emotionalism of last year’s coverage. Back then, we had frenzied reports on the search for the abducted university student.
About 80 000 mineworkers will down tools on Sunday night for the first strike in the gold sector since 1987, the National Union of Mineworkers said on Tuesday. This came after at least two unions in the gold industry on Tuesday afternoon received strike notices from the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration.
Holding rainbow-coloured golf umbrellas above their heads to shade themselves from the sun, members of the Saudi royal family buried King Fahd on Tuesday in an unmarked grave at a public cemetery in Riyadh.
Thousands of right-wing Israelis rallied near the Gaza Strip border on Tuesday night ahead of a threatened showdown with the army and police over the government’s plan to remove all Jewish settlers from Gaza and bulldoze their homes later this month.
De Beers announced on Tuesday that it will team up with Canada’s Cameco Corporation to look for uranium for the first time in the far North. De Beers will allow Cameco to search its Aberdeen Lake property in the eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut for the mineral that is becoming increasingly valuable.