The Zimbabwean government is to take over six firms which closed their doors in support of last week’s five day ”mass action” by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), industry Minister Francis Nhema told state radio on Tuesday.
Liberia’s main rebel group, which has battled its way to the edge of the capital Monrovia, is said to be guilty of the same massive human rights abuses of which it accuses President Charles Taylor’s government.
The South African Ministry of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology has accepted new place names for towns in the province of Limpopo — including Louis Trichardt’s new name of Makhado.
The third South African to reach the summit of Mt Everest — Sean Wisedale — isn’t too sure about this mountain climbing thing. ”I’m still trying to develop a love for climbing mountains,” Wisedale told chortling journalists in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
The compact but spacious Honda Jazz is the sixth body style introduced by Honda South Africa since it became a player in the South African market in December 2000.
Trade and investment from South Africa is crucial to the development of the rest of the African continent, according to a study released on Tuesday.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the Steel Engineering Industry Federation of South Africa (Seifsa) started another round of crucial wage talks on Tuesday.
Hamas leader Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi threatened on Tuesday ”not to leave one Jew in Palestine” in remarks to Al-Jazeera television from his Gaza hospital bed as he recovered from an Israeli bid to kill him.
West African diplomats were due to arrive in the Liberian capital Monrovia on Tuesday on a mission to try to broker a truce for the war-shattered country, as the United States and other nations evacuated their citizens.
South African business owners are highly optimistic about growth prospects despite myriad challenges in the local business environment, according to a recent survey published by auditing, accounting and business advisory group Grant Thornton Kessel Feinstein.