A national task team has been appointed by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to coordinate the drafting of an operational plan for a countrywide anti-retroviral treatment programme.
South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni, facing criticism for accepting a 12% pay rise last year, got another increase above the inflation target he set this year, the bank said on Wednesday.
A Rwandan presidential candidate vowed on Wednesday to grant a general amnesty to perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in the traumatised central African country. The upcoming vote will be the first multi-party election since the genocide.
United Nations chief Kofi Annan insisted on Wednesday that the UN had no plans to pull out of Iraq despite the bombing of its Baghdad headquarters, taking a swipe at the United States-led coalition, which he said was responsible for security.
Iraq: The agony goes on
UN Baghdad headquarters blasted
As Auditor General Shauket Fakie defended the final report of the arms deal investigation before Parliament on Wednesday, a new allegation emerged of irregularities in the awarding of subcontracts.
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Tapping into a growing trend, Mugg & Bean coffee shops are now offering wireless internet access (Wi-Fi) at four of their stores in South Africa.
South Africa is perfecting cheaper and more effective HIV tests, according to reports on diagnostic tests presented at a conference.
Two American fugitives, on the FBI’s most wanted list for a spate of bank robberies across the American West in the Nineties, were arrested in Cape Town on Tuesday after years on the run. They had been living and working in the Mother City for at least two years.
Cleric Allan Boesak says that if he had taken the stand in his own defence in his year 2000 trial, Archbishop Desmond Tutu could also have ended up facing criminal charges.
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A weaker rand and a sterling performance by gold stocks lifted the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) into positive territory on Wednesday. Gains were seen across the board, with advancers outnumbering decliners on the all-share index by more than three to one in late morning trade.