The country’s largest pension payout company is involved in micro-lending on the side, targeting poor pensioners and charging them exorbitant interest rates on small loans.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Thursday told his supporters not to be cowed by a visit by US President George Bush next week to neighbouring South Africa and Botswana, state television reported.
Zimbabwe would prove an acid test for the New Partnership for African Development (Nepad) as well for South Africa’s commitment to enforcing the values enshrined in it, Cape High Court Judge Dennis Davis said in Grahamstown on Thursday.
The government will build four more prisons and is considering releasing 1 500 awaiting trialists in a bid to relieve overcrowding, Correctional Services Minister Ben Skosana said on Thursday.
After two strong days, the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) came under pressure in early trade on Friday on the back of a slightly stronger rand and weaker
world markets.
The Federal Council of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Nafcoc) has agreed to reinstate the black business body’s suspended deputy president, Vincent Phaahla.
Bizarre details of misgovernance, reckless management and alleged misappropriation of funds in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature emerged this week with the release of a confidential auditor general’s report.
South Africans opposed to United States President George Bush’s visit to South Africa next Wednesday have been drawn by 300 social movements affiliated to the Anti-War Coalition into demanding that the African National Congress cancel the visit.
Airforce One hits the tarmac at Waterkloof airbase next Tuesday, the first pulpit on United States President George Bush’s evangelical five-stop African junket — his second trip to the continent, his first to South Africa.
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South Africa’s most well-known Iron Age site, Mapungubwe in Limpopo, was declared a World Heritage site by Unesco on Thursday.