According to Bill Naude, chairperson of the Plastics Federation, demand for plastic bags has fallen by up to 90% since the government introduced legislation making the use of heavier gauge carrier bags compulsory.
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) can be redeemed as a way of restoring Africa’s capacity to fashion its own path to economic prosperity. But it needs a new self-confidence based on a recognition of the illusions that now prevail.
Investors in South Africa’s mining sector could be forgiven for having had an eerie sense of deja vu this month when state-owned financier the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) challenged Anglo American’s acquisition of a majority shareholding in iron ore mining group Kumba Resources.
There are large elements of shadow boxing in the high-profile tiff between African National Congress MP Johnny de Lange and senior judges, and it is gross overreaction to suggest that the independence of the judiciary is under threat.
When King Mswati III dissolved Swaziland’s Parliament this month in anticipation of October elections, he sternly warned prospective candidates not to murder innocent people in order to harvest their body parts to make a "muti" to bring good fortune.
Microsoft has taken the unprecedented step of launching two legal actions in Britain against distributors of unsolicited junk e-mail as part of a global attempt to halt the spam epidemic.
Somalia will have a new interim administration in place by next month after all outstanding issues are resolved at peace talks in Nairobi, Kenya’s envoy to the talks said this week.
The long-running series of corruption trials against leading international construction companies in Lesotho has reached another milestone with a guilty plea from one of the main intermediaries for the bribes.
The European Central Bank (ECB) was under mounting pressure to cut borrowing costs this week after admitting that the eurozone will grow this year at half the speed it originally expected.
Lennox Lewis feels he is on the victory lap of his long career. After a year in the pasture, he planned to test the waters once more against Canada’s Kirk Johnson before taking on mandatory challenger Vitali Klitschko, followed by a big-bang send off against Mike Tyson or Roy Jones and then retirement, marriage, children and a new entrepreneurial career.