Negotiations to secure the sophisticated Pechiney French aluminium smelter for the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) outside Port Elizabeth have entered ”the final straight”, the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) said on Wednesday.
An international fraud ring is producing fake Cambridge University degree certificates, potential employers were warned on Wednesday. A spokesperson from an SA corporate security company said the advent of computer scanning and imaging technology has made it possible to create almost perfect looking degrees.
It was simply not true that no investment had been made in port infrastructure since the new government in South Africa came to power in 1994, a senior Public Enterprises official, Dr Ian Phillips, said on Wednesday.
Six military police officers were killed and eight other soldiers wounded in two attacks in southern Iraq yesterday in the biggest setback to British forces since the war was declared officially over.
Year-on-year producer price inflation for all commodities sank to 1,1% last month from 3,3% in April, Statistics SA reported on Wednesday.
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin will begin a three-day visit to South Africa and Ghana on Thursday in a bid to reaffirm Paris’s commitment to helping the world’s poorest continent.
The Karl Bremer hospital in Cape Town has treated over 20 children this year poisoned by drinking ”black tea” made from the boiled juice of the ”moonflower” plant, police said on Wednesday.
New Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) president Motsoko Pheko says the party will now take its rightful place of honour in the country’s political landscape.
African nations need to put strong pressure on Zimbabwe’s government to end its authoritarian rule, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday as the main opposition leader returned to court to face the first of two treason cases.
Three South African trade unions, Solidarity, the National Union of Mineworkers and Black Allied Mining and Construction Workers’ Union, have referred a wage dispute with Kumba Resources to the Commission for Mediation, Conciliation and Arbitration.