Forty-six percent of South Africans who participated in a poll conducted by Research Surveys in August this year believed that President Thabo Mbeki was doing a good job as president of South Africa. Research Surveys said the results of the poll stemmed from interviews with 3 500 respondents over the age of 18.
The emergence of the Group of 20+ developing countries at the World Trade Organisation meeting in Cancun was an "important moral and political victory" that strengthened the bargaining power of developing countries, according to South African Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel.
The continuing strength of the rand poses a serious and immediate challenge to De Beers — the world’s largest diamond miner — which reports its earnings in United States dollars, managing director Gary Ralfe said on Wednesday. A reduction of staffing levels will be necessary.
The future of the United Nations as a strong international organisation was under threat, said Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on Wednesday. ”Globalisation is bringing about increased economic and political integration. The reality however is that the same processes that are bringing us all together in a global village are placing the residents of the global village in different positions.
Banking group Absa has been hit by another internet theft, SABC television news reported on Wednesday. Police and Absa in Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal, were investigating claims made a client that R52 000 was withdrawn from his account.
Senior members of Canada’s three largest parliamentary parties called Wednesday on the Canadian government to indict Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
South African business is standing at the brink of a new era, with the unification of black and white formations imminent. But black business organisations are riven by internal battles. The annual general meeting of the black National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Nafcoc) takes place at Sun City.
It is a question which has been kicking about for thousands of years: is our universe infinite? Today, scientists have announced the most compelling evidence yet which suggests that, not only is it finite, but it may be the shape of a football.
The Catholic Church is telling people in countries stricken by Aids not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through which the HIV virus can pass — potentially exposing thousands of people to risk. The church is making the claims across four continents despite a widespread scientific consensus that condoms are impermeable to the HIV virus.
Archie Msiza is slumped on a wooden chair at the Highveld hospital, which sits in the middle of a flat, prairie-like landscape pock-marked only by colliery shafts. The youthful 42-year-old mineworker has agreed to talk but is still nervous his name might be disclosed in the newspaper. He has not admitted even to his friends or colleagues he has the sexually transmitted disease because he fears discrimination.