The death toll from an earthquake that shook a swath of northern China over the weekend has risen to three and the number of injured has climbed to 1 100, the government said on Monday as authorities worked to shelter people displaced by the tremor.
Production returned to normal on Monday at Johnson Matthey SA in Germiston after workers accepted a 12% wage increase and a promise contract workers would be absorbed into the company.
The Democratic Alliance called on President Thabo Mbeki on Monday to investigate and discipline those who instigated prominent ANC member Cyril Ramaphosa’s ”intervention” in the Scorpions’ probe into Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
Students at the beleaguered Technikon Witwatersrand believe they have been let down by their students’ representative council, which last week led protests that caused the institution to be shut down.
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Liberia’s warring factions were on Monday poised to sign a deal to form an interim government and end 14 years of almost uninterrupted war, a week after warlord turned president Charles Taylor was forced to resign and go into exile.
The Directorate of Public Prosecutions has declined to prosecute cigarette manufacturers British American Tobacco (BAT) over its sponsorship of a smoking venue at a African National Congress conference.
Six leading Algerian dailies were suspended from publication on Monday for not paying debts to state-run printing presses, the newspapers said. Their editors said a sudden call to pay the debts was part of a government move to stifle press freedom.
The director of a play which aroused the ire of animal lovers when a chicken was slaughtered on stage two weeks ago says he does not regret the killing.
A third straight night of gunbattles between ethnic factions and security forces left at least 10 people dead in the Nigerian oil city of Warrim which has been at the centre of a conflict between the Itsekiri ethnic group and the neighbouring Ijaws, who are vying for supremacy in the oil-rich swamps west of the city.