An application by Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and two senior party officials to have treason charges against them dropped has been postponed to next week, a newspaper reported on Monday.
The trial of New Labour Party leader Peter Marais and former deputy social development minister David Malatsi on corruption charges will start in the Cape Town Regional Court next month.
The difficulties faced in transferring ownership of large tourism enterprises to black South Africans were highlighted on Monday, with the release of the South African Tourism Industry Empowerment and Transformation annual review for 2003.
When US President George Bush visits Africa this week, he will find a continent crippled by catastrophe. Millions upon millions are already dead, orphaned or sick from Aids.
South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the outgoing chairperson of the African Union’s (AU) executive council on Sunday told her successor, Mozambique’s Leonard Simao, that the Pan African Parliament and the continent’s regional economic blocks were key to the continent’s development prospects.
Pick ‘n Pay have started searching customers in an effort to catch, the ”skilled” person who is spiking goods with non-lethal doses of cyanide. The retailer posted a R5-million reward on the weekend for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the extortionist.
A debate around the compulsory HIV testing of miners is set to shake up the mining industry in the coming months. Concerns are that miners whose HIV status is known could be the target of discrimination.
Pink Software, one of South Africa’s oldest computer software companies, has decided to give away its accounting package, TurboCASH.7, free of charge, managing director Philip Copeman announced on Monday.
What began as a search for a solution to an environmental challenge has grown into a global success story for South African pulp and paper producer Sappi and Norwegian partner Borregaard.
President Bush’s trip to Africa this week signals a recent strategic decision to increase America’s military presence to bolster what Washington now sees as two important national interests on the continent — the supply of oil and the struggle against terrorism.