Legislation paving the way for the continued existence of Armscor was tabled in
Parliament on Wednesday, following significant changes that occurred in the 1990s in respect of the corporation.
The South African polar vessel SA Agulhas was on Wednesday steaming south at full speed from Marion Island to intercept the fleeing Uruguayan trawler Viarsa 1.
So long and thanks for the fish
Thousands of Bushmen have been forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana. Reasons given for the evictions have included the Bushmen’s "development", and conservation of the area, but diamond mining companies are being blamed.
Television footage of dozy MPs nodding off during lengthy debates in Parliament are a source of amusement for some, but one member, on Tuesday, saw justification in a quick forty winks.
The blackout that swept across America’s north-east at the end of last week cost New York City’s already struggling economy ,1-billion, officials said — roughly -million an hour.
Superheroes are used to dealing with adversity, but they now have a new opponent: an Australian council which has declared them public enemy number one for children.
Auditor General Shauket Fakie on Wednesday maintained that the draft and final reports on the arms deal investigation differed only in style and format.
Tired but safe, 14 Europeans who spent several months as hostages in the Sahara desert after being seized in Algeria left Mali’s capital Bamako late Tuesday for Cologne on a German army ambulance plane.
Rigged like American youth with caps glued to their heads and baggy trousers like rappers, the young Eritreans from the diaspora returning to Eritrea in their thousands each summer do not go unnoticed in the streets of Asmara.
The proposed amendments to the Skills Development Act is to ensure that Sector Education and Training Authorities (Setas) deliver on skills, Labour Director-General Advocate Rams Ramashia said on Tuesday.