Angolan opposition leader Isaias Samakuva has urged the holding of legislative and presidential elections in the southwest African country in September 2005. The Unita head called on the legislature to complete a review of the constitution and electoral law to enable the holding of polls in the war-ravaged country.
The US dollar gold price is likely to continue its two-year bull trend in 2004 driven by a weak US dollar, the renewal of the Washington central bank gold agreement and the threat of renewed terrorist attacks, Switzerland-based MKS Finance analyst Frederic Panizzutti says.
President Thabo Mbeki has been ill-advised to link celebrations of SAs first Haiti’s decade of democracy with festivities marking Haiti.
The ANC’s main battle for the 2004 election may not be against other parties, but against over apathy.
The matric exam’s exalted status drew savage fire, even as the results were celebrated.
South African business and academics expressed scepticism at the government’s plan to establish a new set of training agencies, saying the initiative will undermine the development of skills in the country and is yet another bureaucratic tactic.
‘Die wiel sal draai [The tide will turn].” The ominous words of Israelite Johan van Heerden echo through his simple house as he lights yet another Camel. Yolandi Groenewald spoke to two so-called Israelites to learn about Israel Vision, a sect that believes that non-whites are the ‘seed of Satan’.
South Africans are about to "rewrite the record books" with a R35-billion spending spree — but without the need to worry about a debt or inflation hangover, says Dawie Roodt, chief economist at the Efficient group.
Measured by progress made towards a just and peaceful world order, 2003 is thankfully over and best forgotten. Especially depressing was the spectacle of the richest, most scientifically advanced human beings on the planet lapse into a kind of high-tech barbarism.
Saddam Hussein has started "cooperating" with his American interrogators and has admitted hiding millions of dollars in secret international bank accounts, a senior member of Iraq’s governing council said this week.