Despite more developing member countries having become more informed and proactive on the organisation’s thoroughly undemocratic functioning and biased agreements, the WTO remains a virtual battlefield.
Another country exists out there in the townships of Limpopo, as Sharon van Wyk discovered. And thanks to tour guide James Ndhlovu, she feels she has finally discovered the country she is living in.
The Border Bulldogs rugby team, who play the Leopards in Potchefstroom on Friday in a Currie Cup first Division match, have been hard hit by injury.
Côte d’Ivoire’s ruling party has accused Prime Minister Seydou Diarra of colluding with a group of coup plotters arrested in France for allegedly planning to assassinate President Laurent Gbagbo.
Assassins-to-be detained in Côte d’Ivoire
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) will announce on Thursday the company it has recommended to Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri as the preferred bidder for a 51% stake in the second national telephone operator (SNO).
Serena and Venus Williams were too hurt to play tennis at the US Open, but not too injured to appear on television shows in New York on Wednesday and declare the Grand Slam event diminished by their absence.
Arsenal and Manchester United kept their early season record perfect on Wednesday. In the third Premier League game for each team, Arsenal won 2-0 at home against Aston Villa and defending champion Man United defeated Wolverhampton 1-0.
Josep Ngake, a former Orlando Pirates player, scored a hat-trick to help Ajax to a 3-1 win over neighbours Hellenic in a PSL soccer match played in Cape Town on Wednesday night.
The Lions go into Saturday’s crunch Currie Cup encounter with the Sharks at Ellis Park on the back of two convincing wins — against the Eagles and Cheetahs — and full of confidence.
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