Lesotho King Letsie III told Southern African leaders in Maseru on Friday that the Southern African Development Community Summit on HIV/Aids was taking place at a time when sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Southern Africa, was threatened by the ”menacing dark clouds of the killer disease”.
Efforts by the Department of Labour to deal with poorly performing sector education and training authorities (Setas) have been met with resistance from business and labour.
President Thabo Mbeki is likely to sign controversial legislation this month to outlaw the use of lethal force against fleeing suspects who do not pose an immediate threat.
The launch of the Cape Town International Convention Centre last week buttresses the claim that tourism is much more than just leisure.
An article in an African National Congress publication implies that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party should have walked out of the alliance, as Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) leader Trevor Ngwane did, over their differences with the government’s economic policy.
Thousands of participants from all sides of South Africa’s liberation war still struggle to find a place in post-apartheid society.
A judge in Zimbabwe on Friday ordered the high court to set a date for hearing an opposition petition challenging President Robert Mugabe’s victory in polls last year, a lawyer said.
South Africa and India have embarked on a strengthening of economic and political ties via the Fifth South Africa-India Joint Ministerial Commission, taking place over the past three days with the visit to South Africa by India’s Minister of External Affairs, Shri Yaswant Sinha.
Ghanaian health authorities have ordered anti-retroviral drugs from undisclosed sources to cater for the treatment of 2000 HIV/Aids patients for the next two years.
The Zambian government has bought new vehicles for its ministers at a time when the country is facing a huge budget deficit that has led to some donors to withhold aid, an official said on Friday.