The Gauteng provincial government said on Tuesday that it has committed R238-million to infrastructural development in Newtown in order to attract private sector investment to the area.
Namibia’s San, or Bushmen, have experienced a deterioration in their economic and political rights since independence 12 years ago, according to a report released on Tuesday.
National police commissioner Jackie Selebi ordered an immediate inquiry on Tuesday into alleged police brutality after a man was mauled by a police dog, then arrested and shackled to a hospital bed.
The Angolan council of ministers has passed a decree containing the regulations for setting up a diamond monitoring and certification mechanism in accordance with the Kimberley Process.
After a six-year search Japanese scientists are preparing to clone prehistoric woolly mammoths from frozen DNA samples found in Siberia.
In case you’re wondering why it took Daimler-Chrysler South Africa nine months to get around to launching the smart car to the public after Budget took delivery of their first examples, the answer surely lies in the press pack. With just one of the myriad press releases occupying a full 32 pages of enthusiastic prose it must have taken the poor buggers forever to produce. But we won’t inflict the full 5 525 words on you — just the important ones.
How do you decide just what is the best car on the market? If that question was easily answered our roads would be full of one model, and everybody else would be out of business.
Some of the -billion announced by President George Bush to save the lives of people with Aids in poor countries could be spent on cheap copycat generic medicines that the giant US-based drug companies brand as ”pirates”, his advisers revealed yesterday.
Sharp falls in gold counters pared gains on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa by noon on Wednesday, with the bourse in flattish territory. The weakness in the rand, however, gave impetus to dual-listed stocks.
As awareness of the Aids crisis breaks in Swaziland like a blinding dawn, measures that would have been unthinkable a year ago are now being initiated.