Look to southern Africa and the rest of the continent for expansion, Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa urged South African business on Tuesday. Opening the Export Africa 2005 show, he advised small businesses and those with little international experience to enter into regional trade relationships.
A representative of vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath has come under fire from the SA Jewish Board of Deputies for likening the Treatment Action Campaign to Nazis. Lawyer Anthony Brink made the claim in papers he filed in reply to the TAC’s application in the Cape High Court for an urgent defamation interdict against Rath and his Dr Rath Health Foundation.
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika fired Education Minister Yusuf Mwawa only hours after the minister’s arrest on Tuesday on corruption charges. Mwawa was the first close ally of the president to be arrested in an anti-corruption drive. He is accused of using public funds to pay for his wedding reception.
Workers at Denel are to conduct daily protests at the local arms manufacturer’s Pretoria offices against a suspected drive to remove black managers from their positions. Denel said it was not aware of any manager being demoted and that it remained committed to constructive engagement with organised labour.
”We just want that little white piece of paper,” said Marie Fourie during a break at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday, drawing an air square with her fingers. ”We just want it to be legal, legal, legal,” she said from the front of the public gallery where she and Cecilia Bonthuys spent the day listening to argument over what constituted a marriage.
By 2015 South Africans could expect prime interest rates below ten percent, says Rand Merchant Bank chief economist Rudolf Gouws. Gouws says the economy has been in the longest-ever recorded ”upswing” since 1999 and predicted South Africa’s long term business environment has higher growth potential.
The decision by Kenya’s attorney general to drop a murder charge against one of Kenya’s most prominent and richest white farmers may cause widespread anger amongst the country’s Masai population, who still nurse grievances against white farmers for settling on land they once roamed with their cattle.
Former South African leader Nelson Mandela and United States President George Bush on Tuesday discussed ways to reduce Third World debt, but did not raise their disagreement over Iraq, officials said. Mandela, a Nobel Peace Prize-winner, met with Bush at the White House during a private visit to the US.
Let’s start with some very sexy, scary, surreal Aids adverts. Scary <i>and</i> sexy? Yup. I mean, think about it — how do you convey the idea of a disease that kills via sex? The French — unlike the African National Congress — actually don’t want their citizens to die, so they came up with some beautifully effective adverts that make the point with breathtaking ease.
I have a question for all teachers and principals: do you feel free to speak to the media? Or do you find yourselves "censored" — either because your district manager tells you that you can’t be interviewed by a journalist without going through the official "channels" or because the Voice of the Department speaks on your behalf?