Trade unions, the government and business should unite if South Africa is to attract an estimated two million jobs, but the perception of local labour inflexibility could be a major stumbling block.
It’s 11pm on a Saturday night in downtown Monrovia and at the African Palace nightclub, revellers are getting down to some serious partying.
The government sought to assure agricultural leaders on Tuesday that it had no intention of tampering with a report on violent farm attacks, Agri SA said.
South Africa’s banking system remains sound, the South African Reserve Bank said on Tuesday.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma is continuing his work programme as usual despite the flurry of public debate around his alleged links to corruption in South Africa’s arms deal.
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The 19-day chase of a Uraguayan trawler with a suspected hold full of poached Patagonian toothfish is expected to reach a climax within hours.
Bogus victims increasingly ‘cry rape’ to obtain free treatment from clinics against possible HIV/Aids infection, Northern Cape health MEC Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday.
The latest version of the Subaru Forester, delivered to us for evaluation a week or two ago takes the wagon even closer to being all things to all people. It boasts all the normal Forester attributes, but with its performance hugely boosted by the addition of a Mitsubishi TD04 turbocharger that ups power by a whopping 40% to 155 kW, and elevates torque from 223 Nm at 3600 rpm to a very useful 320 Nm at the same revs.
Honda South Africa’s Motorcycle Division has set its sights on a larger portion of the growing All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) market in this country, and to mark the occasion invited a number of motoring journalists to play with some of their products at a quarry near Hartebeespoort Dam.
Israeli helicopters blew apart a car carrying Hamas activists in Gaza last night as the army followed through on its threat to ”liquidate” members of the Islamic resistance movement. But the helicopters missed their target and instead killed an elderly man.