It may still be playing second fiddle to rival Vodacom on the home front, but South African cellular telecommunications services provider MTN is making major inroads into Africa where it now boasts almost seven million subscribers, providing
cellular, satellite and Internet access to 14 countries on the vast continent.
A meeting last weekend between the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the South African National Aids Council (Sanac), attended by the Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and other governement officials, bought the government more time to announce a national HIV/Aids treatment plan.
The South African official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has claimed "a people’s victory" over the pending issue of police crime statistics.
The Mining Titles Amendment Bill, which has received the unanimous nod of South Africa’s National Assembly, sets up a central office for the registration of mining titles.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was slightly weaker at the opening on Friday, with only the gold index managing to post gains. However, the market turned around in the first half hour, with the all share index sneaking into the black.
Zimbabwe’s high court on Friday said opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, being tried on treason charges for allegedly calling for the violent overthrow of President Robert Mugabe, could be released on bail.
Zim land reform sees 90% production drop
The National Intelligence Agency has taken an interest in the Nigeria-South Africa oil saga and has visited some of those involved, including the wife of Eastern Cape Premier Makhenkesi Stofile.
The Mineworkers Development Agency (MDA), the development and job creation arm of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), has temporarily shut its development centres and retrenched 43 staff.
Former apartheid-era National Intelligence Service (NIS) boss Mike Louw is one of three former intelligence operatives who will advise Minister of Intelligence Lindiwe Sisulu on conditions of employment in the intelligence community, including possible restraint of trade agreements.
The Inkatha Freedom Party’s powerful national council will next week sit to discuss the party’s possible exit from the national government — a move that senior party members say is the most serious debate yet on this option.