The value of new investments announced in Cape Town’s central business district has exceeded R3,049-billion for the six months to June 2003, the Cape Town Partnership confirmed on Monday.
A 25-year-old man was stabbed, and later died, in the Philippines for singing a Frank Sinatra classic out of tune during a birthday party, police said Tuesday.
The Road Freight Association has reacted with disdain to New National Party MP Johann Durand’s accusation that tankers are ”weapons of mass destruction” on the country’s roads.
Police arrested activists on Monday outside an international conference highlighting the benefits of biotechnology as US President George Bush urged a wary European Union to drop its opposition to genetically modified (GM) crops.
A French-led military security force was poised late on Tuesday morning to enforce its ultimatum that the streets of the rebel-held northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) town of Bunia be free of guns.
The US Supreme Court on Monday upheld a law forcing libraries to use internet porn filters, dismissing arguments that the law violated the rights of cyber surfers when they blocked legitimate websites by mistake.
Women’s organisations in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday accused the United Nations mission there of turning a blind eye to ongoing fighting which has ravaged this part of the vast African country.
Pre-trial arguments are to continue in the Pretoria High Court treason hearing of 22 alleged members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation on Tuesday.
London and Nasdaq listed Randgold Resources, 45% held by South Africa’s Randgold and Exploration, has been added to FTSE’s UK Monitored List following the redenomination of its shares into sterling on the London Stock Exchange.
Deflation, as opposed to inflation, exposes the world economy to great risk, says Christo Luüs, chief economist of banking group Absa. However, Luus believes that it is unlikely that deflation will occur in South Africa in the foreseeable future.