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.
Nigeria was facing its second week of a crippling general strike on Sunday after union leaders rejected a government offer to scale back a fuel price hike.
Russia yesterday began beefing up security measures around the capital after Saturday’s suicide bombings, as President Putin cancelled an overseas trip to try to deal with the fear gripping the city’s 10-million inhabitants.
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Sunday handed out certificates to party members in KwaZulu-Natal who remained loyal to him during the floor-crossing window earlier this year.
A 24-year-old British journalist shot dead in Baghdad over the weekend was a relative novice who had travelled to Iraq to fulfil an ambition to work as a war reporter.
Liberia’s embattled president, Charles Taylor, accepted an offer of asylum in Nigeria yesterday but gave no indication of when he would leave and insisted that it must be an ”orderly exit from power”.
A Boeing 727 cargo plane which caused panic among US intelligence agencies after mysteriously disappearing from Angola’s main airport turned up last week in Guinea.