Mpumalanga’s department of public works has accused the provincial treasury of "ignorance" and "malicious" behaviour following a damning report on the department’s functioning.
Gregory Peck, the Oscar-winning actor who perhaps more than anyone of his generation epitomised old-fashioned honour and integrity in his screen persona, has died at the age of 87.
President Robert Mugabe escalated Zimbabwe’s war of words with Britain yesterday by threatening to expel London’s high commissioner from Harare, claiming that Sir Brian Donnelly had aided opposition protests.
Bizos fights to save Tsvangirai
Israel declared total war on Hamas yesterday, with the Islamic resistance movement responding by ordering all its fighters to immediately mobilise and ”blow up the Zionist entity”.
Nigeria’s national oil authority this week confirmed what the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has said all along: the lucrative oil contract scooped by a Cayman Islands company was, in fact, allocated to the South African government.
Sharp new questions over conflicts of interest have emerged about the controversial private company that secured a "government-to-government" deal to buy Nigerian crude oil.
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South Africa’s major banks were quick off the starting block to cut interest rates on Thursday afternoon after the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) announced that it was reducing the repo rate by 150 basis points from 13,5% to 12%.
First published five years ago in his native French, Ahmadou Kourouma’s third novel has since sold a sensational 100 000 copies in France, writes Stephen Gray.
It was not at all surprising to see State President Thabo Mbeki using a biblical reference to get his message across about how the South African media continue to enjoy their racist sport.
Monetary policy in South Africa will continue to tighten in the months ahead as the real prime interest, which is also the home loan rate for most people, continues to rise.