About 9 000 houses will be transferred to registered beneficiaries in Gauteng by June next year, provincial housing minister Nomvula Mokonyane said on Tuesday. ”The rate at which these transfers are going to take place is a show of commitment by the government to eradicating homelessness,” Mokonyane said.
Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, who is retiring at the end of the year, says he is leaving the country in safe hands, praising his chosen successor Armando Guebuza as a leader who will build on his legacy. ”We have taken all the precautions and studied the succession issue carefully,” said Chissano.
Communities in the Western Cape should get traditional knowledge royalties on rooibos tea products, provincial economic development minister Lynne Brown said on Wednesday. Brown has already promised she will lead the fight to reclaim the rooibos name from the company that has copyrighted it in the United States.
Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) took back the eastern provincial capital of Bukavu without a fight on Wednesday, to the jubilation of residents, a week after the regular army was chased out by renegade troops. Residents of Bukavu danced in the streets, banging drums and cooking pots.
Seventy South Africans being held in Harare on suspicion of plotting a coup d’état in Equatorial Guinea, will have to stand trial in Zimbabwe, the Pretoria High Court ruled on Wednesday. Their advocate said his instructions were to lodge an application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court in the event of their Pretoria High Court bid failing.
Leon calls for ‘words and action’
Mugabe to seize all farm land
KWV Limited, South Africa’s second-largest wine and spirits producer and exporter, has concluded an agreement with a broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) consortium in the local wine industry, Phetogo Investments, for Phetogo to make a share purchase offer to acquire a 25,1% stake in the company.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was mixed in noon trade on Wednesday after a lacklustre morning’s trade. Weakness in heavyweight resources stocks kept the overall index in the red, despite the fact that advancers slightly outpaced decliners.
Availability of HIV treatment could shift attitudes about the threat of HIV/Aids in the developing world.
The South African Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) started at 9am on Wednesday, with a decision on interest rates expected at 3pm on Thursday. The unanimous forecast of economists is that this will be the third consecutive MPC meeting where no change in interest rates is announced.
The sixth annual African Computing and Telecommunications Summit is building on its strategic relationship with the global association of satellite telecommunications industries, summit organisers said in a statement. This year’s summit, themed <i>Developing Partnerships to Mainstream Africa’s ICT Industry</i>, will be held in September.