The misuse of the apostrophe and the appropriate use of the hyphen — questions that have plagued teachers of English and editors for generations — could soon be at an end.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas on Thursday officially declared its ceasefire finished after an Israeli air strike killed one of its top leaders.
Top Hamas man was ‘directing attacks’
At least 120 people, most of them fighters in the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, have been killed in northern Uganda in the past fortnight, the army said on Thursday.
In what it calls a world first, South Africa’s biggest retail bank, Absa, on Wednesday launched a portable device that enables the bank’s staff or agents to capture accounts, issue debit cards and select PINs in areas where people have limited access to a physical bank branch.
Transtel and Eskom Enterprises, which will own the 30% state owned enterprises (SOE) stake in South Africa’s proposed second network telephone operator (SNO), say the lack of certainty and inadequacy regarding certain issues surrounding the SNO lead them to believe alternative plans should be investigated.
The Democratic Alliance has renewed its call for bold leadership from the South African government in helping to resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe.
The credibility of the report on farm attacks has been questioned after Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula sent the document back to the committee that compiled it.
The Nigerian Senate is considering whether to advise President Olusegun Obasanjo to close the country’s borders with neighbouring Cameroon and Chad to stem cross-border crime, a spokesperson said on Thursday.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was a whisker away from turning positive for the year just after noon on Thursday, with a weaker rand and stronger European markets lifting heavyweights at the top end of the market.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Thursday said it would meet employers in the civil engineering contracting sector at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in the afternoon.