The sense of disappointment and frustration following the SADC summit last week matched that experienced after PW Botha’s notorious Rubicon speech. Instead of discussing the political and economic breakdown in Zimbabwe, as promised by the Tanzanian hosts, the leaders cheered Mugabe to the rafters.
In a key provision, the 1995 Labour Relations Act (LRA) created a two-tier hierarchy of specialist, high-status labour courts. Unfortunately, the system envisaged by the Act has been emasculated.
Okkert Brits picked up South Africa’s second medal of the World Championships when his clearance of 5,85m was good for the men’s pole vault silver medal in Paris on Thursday.
Nineteen children and one adult were killed on Thursday when a bridge crumbled on the western Indian coast, plunging a school bus and four other vehicles into a river.
A makeshift rocket of the sort used by Palestinian militant groups landed deep inside Israel on Thursday, hitting an industrial zone in the port city of Ashkelon, Israeli military sources said. It was the first time an improvised rocket fired from the Gaza Strip had reached so far into Israel.
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has rejected both bids for the 51% foreign equity stake in the second national operator to rival partially privatised telephone fixed-line monopoly Telkom, saying that they both fall short of the criteria.
Rwanda’s electoral body on Thursday rejected criticism by European Union observers to this week’s presidential election, accusing them of bias in favor of opposition candidate Faustin Twagiramungu.
Culture clashes loom over the forthcoming merger of Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (known as Puk) and the University of the North West (Uniwest) in Mmabatho — two very different institutions.
The South African rand was steady against major currencies in late trade on Thursday, amid mixed flows throughout the day.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon has accused President Thabo Mbeki of failing to lead the country by keeping silent on the scandal engulfing Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
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