The South African government will not stand in the way of apartheid reparations lawsuits filed overseas but it does not support them, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Penuell Maduna said on Wednesday.
Letters in the latest issue of the journal Aids tell contrasting tales about HIV treatment in developing countries.
South Africa’s largest cigarette manufacturer, British American Tobacco, says it is deliberately not seeking to expand its business in the country.
Disgraced president Charles Taylor may have quit Liberia but reminders of his violence-wracked six-year rule still haunt war-ravaged Monrovia, where weathered signs bear the sayings he coined to remind Liberians of their civic duties.
Zimbabwe’s High Court rejected a request by the opposition on Wednesday to block soldiers and policemen and other armed security officials from staffing polling stations at upcoming elections for district council and two parliamentary seats.
A new survey of young children living in camps for displaced people in the Liberian capital Monrovia indicates that nearly 40% of them suffer from malnutrition.
The Pan Africanist Congress has expelled its former secretary general Thami ka Plaatjie and former secretary for education, Snail Mgwebi, as ”unrepentant divisionists”.
A large number of city dwellers attempted to invade a building in downtown Johannesburg on Tuesday even though many of them had been evicted from the same building on Saturday.
When Microsoft unveiled a multimillion-dollar makeover of its MSN Internet-browsing software last fall, the company had nine-million subscribers and a -million marketing campaign designed to draw hordes of new customers.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was flat in noon trade on Wednesday, with no fresh news to draw buyers into the market. Gold was the only sector to really shine on a lacklustre bourse.