About 340 cases of corruption had been identified in the Eastern Cape since a joint task team was established to tackle this scourge, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Tuesday.
The Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers made an unusually enthusiastic public display of faith in the peace process yesterday before wrangling in private over Israel’s demand that Hamas should be disarmed.
Britain is to head an international force of more than 16 000 troops to enhance security and peacekeeping operations in southern Iraq, it emerged yesterday.
The schedule for remuneration — part of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act — came into effect on Tuesday, ending much of the uncertainty over the calculation of retrenchment packages and severance pay.
India, which has close diplomatic and political ties with South Africa, is to push this week for greater exports to rectify a widening gap in trade with its closest ally on the African continent, Indian officials said.
The re-launch of the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) ”sinister campaign” against Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang ”is not worthy of any detailed response”, the minister’s office said on Tuesday.
Tickets for National Arts Festival productions were ”selling like hot cakes” and sales were already 43% up on last year.
Of the first 42 American presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are the only ones to make extended visits to Africa. On Monday, it will be George Bush’s turn.
The son of Patrice Lumumba, the assassinated first prime minister of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Tuesday said the ethnic nature of the country’s new transition government would lead the vast central African state back into war.
In a sunny corner of the world where nothing much ever happened, Martin Moreno climbed atop a leaking American hydrogen bomb and smiled as he tried to pry loose a souvenir.