Parliament has laid criminal charges against certain travel agencies in respect of air travel services they have provided for its members.
Economic crime was a problem worldwide, but South Africa suffered particularly from this sort of crime, a survey conducted by global accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers found.
South Africa is ranked 111 out of 175 countries measured by the United Nations Development Programme in its 2003 Human Development report.
A manhunt was underway on Tuesday for a gang of up to 12 men who robbed a Fidelity Guards cash van of an undisclosed amount of money on Tuesday morning, police said.
Zimbabwe police arrested the opposition mayor of Harare, Elias Mudzuri, for the second time in two days on Tuesday on unspecified charges, he said.
US President George Bush paid homage on Tuesday to African slaves who passed through the port here, calling slavery "one of the greatest crimes of history" that nonetheless stirred America’s commitment to freedom.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=16820">Bush jets into Pretoria tonight</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=16806">Mbeki and Bush to talk money </a>
Alpha Omar Konare, the former president of Mali, looked highly likely on Tuesday to be elected chairman of the African Union Commission, a key job in the pan-African grouping as it tries to drag the continent out of its cycle of conflict and poverty.
Americans may not know it, but most eat genetically modified food daily. And two Midwestern scientists — one an unassuming gardener, the other a no-nonsense executive — are largely responsible.
Laleh Bijani died on Tuesday just hours after her sister Ladan died in delicate surgery aimed at separating the 29-year-old Iranian twins who born joined at the head, a nurse involved in the surgery said.
Complications slow surgery on twins
The National Union Of Metalworkers and electricity utility Eskom are still at loggerheads after five rounds of wage negotiations failed to produce an agreement on wage increases.