A new law has been proposed in Zimbabwe which, if passed, would dock six months’ pay from lawmakers who walk out of parliament when the president is making a speech, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
The Independent Electoral Commission had not yet decided whether a special Braille ballot template for blind voters will be used in next year’s general election, the IEC said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Tony Blair faced some tough questioning on Tuesday from deputies on whether the war on Iraq was justified, a day after a parliamentary report rapped the manner in which he took Britain into the conflict.
At least 28 people, including 17 rebels, were killed on Monday when the second biggest Hutu rebel group in Burundi, the National Liberation Forces, mounted a major attack on the nation’s capital, Bujumbura.
Domestic demand in the South African economy is generally slowing, with companies seeing lower growth in demand for their products, although some pockets of resilience do exist, according to international investment bank Merrill Lynch.
Nedcor Securities’ research team has joined forces with two other top international broking houses to create an international research alliance.
A successful bid by Canadian aluminium group Alcan for French aluminium player Pechiney is likely to affect the establishment of an $2,1-billion aluminium smelter at South Africa’s Coega port.
A total of 115 people were killed when an airliner of the national flag-carrier Sudan Airways crashed in eastern Sudan early on Tuesday, state-owned Radio Omdurman reported.
Six executive members of the Umtata-based Uncedo Taxi Association were sentenced to seven life terms each in the Umtata High Court on Monday for the murder of six members of a rival taxi association and a truck driver.