The name of one of South Africa’s most famous actors, the recently deceased N!Xau, as he was known in his filmstar days, is transliterated in so many ways that it is almost impossible to fathom how the Namibian became so well known.
The Department of Social Development is investigating Cash Paymaster Services’s (CPS) administration of pensions in KwaZulu-Natal.
Census 2001 provides the government with a tool to plan development and allocation of resources better than ever before.
Listed supermarket group Pick ‘n Pay said late on Friday it was adding yet another item to the list of food products it was withdrawing from its shelves and that customers should return after testing positive for traces of cyanide, in the wake of a widening food poisoning scandal instigated by an extortionist several weeks ago.
Poison fears begin to bite at Pick ‘n Pay
Several hundred journalists covering a summit of the African Union in Maputo were seething Thursday after being barred from the conference venue and cut off from the heads of state and ministers.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan spearheaded calls for peace on the continent at the opening of an African Union (AU) summit in Maputo Thursday, but warned that a rocky road lay ahead.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa crawled into positive territory at the opening on Friday, aided by a weaker currency which lifted heavyweight rand hedge
stocks.
The wage dispute between the National Union of Mineworkers and South Africa’s gold and coal miners, represented by the Chamber of Mines, appear to have shown some progress following four days of mediation this week by the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration.
US President George Bush was due to pay a brief official visit to Uganda on Friday on the penultimate leg of a whirlwind five-nation tour of Africa.
Scientists from around the world gather in Paris this Sunday for an update on the war against Aids, gloomily aware that good news will be rare and that, after more than two decades, they still lack basic knowledge about their foe.