The Pakistani High Commission on Wednesday was trying to establish the correctness of reports that South Africans were among 14 people arrested in Lahore on drug-smuggling charges. Pakistani authorities on Tuesday said they had busted an international drug smuggling ring headed by an airport customs official.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was off its lows, but remained in the red, in noon trade on Wednesday, with a stronger rand weighing on heavyweight dual-listed and resources stocks. However, the rand’s strength failed to keep buyers away and on the all-share index advancers slightly outpaced decliners.
President Thabo Mbeki and his wife, Zanele arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, on Wednesday morning for the commemoration of the genocide in that country 10 years ago, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. They are accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and other senior government officials.
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Google hails its new e-mail service as a breakthrough in online communication, but consumer watchdogs are attacking it as a creepy invasion of privacy that threatens to set a troubling precedent.
Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi took a cautious step on Tuesday, saying he would respond to the Cape High Court ruling on immigration regulations once reasons were given. Earlier on Tuesday, the Cape High Court ruled that an order to publish immigration regulations which were supposed to be effected by Wednesday, be set aside.
Ten years ago he was living in a presidential palace, with a gold-braided uniform, a bevy of bodyguards and a country at his command. In the visitors’ book in the palace’s elegant foyer, there was a warm message from Nelson and Winnie Mandela, praising him as a progressive leader who had brought his people ”back into the centre of the struggle”.
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”The government wants to concentrate on what it does best and leave the rest to the experts — while ensuring the experts don’t work against the interests of the people we’re trying to help.” In the last of the series, Drew Forrest puts 10 Really Diabolical Posers (RDPs) to ANC deputy secretary general Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele
South African house prices increased to a record nominal increase of 22,7% y/y in March 2004 from 22,4% y/y in February 2004 and 21,7% y/y in January 2004, according to South African commercial bank Absa’s monthly House Price Index released on Wednesday.
The former United States president Bill Clinton on Tuesday took a swipe at the Bush administration’s close relationship with American pharmaceutical giants by announcing a deal to enable poor countries to buy cheap generic drugs and testing equipment for Aids, rather than the US companies’ more expensive wares.
An African penguin which vanished four years ago after becoming a wildlife celebrity for surviving an oil spill has been found on Robben Island.
Peter was spotted on rocks on Nelson Mandela’s former island jail off the coast of Cape Town, it emerged on Tuesday.