The Cabinet decided this week that a new election law will be on the statute books before Parliament goes into recess towards the end of the year.
Israel fired missiles into Gaza again last night as the White House tried to forestall the escalation of its war with Hamas at the end of one of the bloodiest weeks of recent times.
‘Total war’ engulfs Middle East
American forces, returning to large-scale combat in Iraq barely six weeks after President George Bush declared victory, have killed at least 97 Iraqi fighters during the past two days in battles against an increasingly sophisticated local resistance.
South Africa’s first youth radio station, Yfm, turns six this year, but questions have been raised about whether it is making much of a contribution towards developing the youth.
More than 500 people are dying of Aids-related illnesses in Zimbabwe daily, according to the latest projections endorsed by the United Nations Aids programme, UNAids.
For about six years there has been a consensus that manipulation of short-term interest rates is the only valid instrument of macroeconomic policy, and that rates should be set with the control of inflation as the main, if not sole, objective.
While reporting last week on renewed steps towards licensing a second nat-ional telephone operator (SNO) I became curious about how our existing national operator, Telkom, is coping with life as a listed company.
For 26 years, June 16, now called Youth Day, has been associated with the effects of youthful exuberance. The youth of 1976 have a lot to be proud of for their role in dismantling apartheid, but their offspring have less reason to be enthusiastic.
United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is planning to put forward detailed proposals at the United Nations for reform of the Security Council to try to mend some of the damage done by disagreements over the Iraq war.
A Paris investigating magistrate has overruled a senior public prosecutor and set up a formal inquiry into the £1,4-million grocery bill claimed by President Jacques Chirac and his wife during eight of the 18 years that the president spent as mayor of the French capital.