Outsourcing is set to create many job opportunities in South Africa over the next few years, but for this to materialise the government should help set up a public private partnership outsourcing company, eQuals Group specialised business director Stuart Herd said in a statement on Tuesday.
Nigeria said on Monday that it was looking for ways to ”decongest” the death row sections of its jails, where 458 prisoners are awaiting execution, some of them for more than 20 years.
She wasn’t really political, she says, but she was involved in the shattering political events of 1976 — and the famous photograph of a youth shot dead by police flashed her face around the world. Nearly three decades after the Soweto Uprising, the <i>M&G</i> meets the girl in the photograph that defined an era in our history, the sister of Hector Pieterson.
The journey back to normal life was never going to be an easy one for the ex-combatants of Liberia’s civil war. But, it could be argued that women fighters face a particularly tough challenge. Many women and girls found themselves caught up in the conflict — both as combatants and victims of sexual abuse by fighting groups.
Shares in world number one resources group BHP Billiton and rival Anglo American on Tuesday soared to long-term highs on the back of a strong outlook for commodities, driven mainly by demand from China.
Iraq’s United States-appointed governing council finally agreed an interim Constitution on Monday, hailing it as a historic step on the road to full sovereignty and towards a country that is ”independent, democratic, federal and pluralist”.
The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, is backing a total withdrawal of Israeli settlers and soldiers from the Palestinian Gaza Strip, according to a well-placed Israeli source. Sharon announced the unilateral pull-out last December, but debate has raged among Israeli ministers about how far Israel should go.
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Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who fled a rebel onslaught on Sunday, is searching for a new home — and it appears that he may take up exile in South Africa. Aristide arrived in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), on Monday along with a small entourage that included his wife.