It didn’t take long for some savvy folks to dream up merchandising the blackout of 2003. Take a quick surf through the web and you can find just about any type of memorabilia, from T-shirts and coffee mugs to baby bibs and thong underwear — even advice on how to handle the next big outage.
President Robert Mugabe’s regime, accused of withholding food from thousands of starving people in pro-opposition areas, has ordered the United Nations to hand over its famine relief stocks for the state’s controversial food distribution operations, reports said here on Tuesday.
The World Food Programme (WFP) in Maseru announced on Monday that Lesotho will need emergency assistance to feed thousands of hungry people over the next 12 months.
The major crude oil refiners operating in South Africa expressed serious concern on Monday over new legislation to restructure the industry, arguing it may perpetuate past distortions.
Ninety-six percent of South African organisations rate information security as important to the success of their organisation, a survey by Ernst & Young has found.
South African supermarket group Shoprite believes Africa is a viable growth opportunity and will be opening four new stores in Angola and five in Ghana during the next year.
A Nigerian man pleaded guilty to running an international investment scam that defrauded investors of more than ,1-million.
The Johannesburg High Court refused an appeal on Monday for the alteration of an eight year jail sentence against Johannesburg technician Howard Bachman (41) for trying to hire a hitman to murder his two-year-old illegitimate son, as well as his former lover.
Europe’s dispute with America over genetically modified food escalated yesterday after Washington asked the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to force the EU to lift its five-year-old ban on new GM food products.
Black men born in the United States in 2001 will have a one in three chance of going to prison during their lifetime if current trends continue, according to a report by the US justice department.