Hewlett-Packard is introducing more than 100 new consumer gadgets on Monday, from digital cameras to photo-quality desktop printers, in anticipation of what could be a grinch-like holiday shopping season.
South African oil and gas company PetroSA’s Sable oil field, located 95km off the southern coast of South Africa and 150km southwest of Mossel Bay, has started to produce oil, the company announced on Monday.
Botswana denied on Monday it was involved in plans to topple the government of Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe. Reports of such a plan have proliferated since the visit to Botswana in July of US president George Bush.
British government weapons adviser David Kelly was a superb scientist whose work helped uncover Saddam Hussein’s secret germ warfare program, said a witness at a judicial inquiry on Monday into Kelly’s suicide.
In a variation on the notorious Nigerian 419 scam, it seems South African criminals are trying to prey on foreigners with fraudulent promises of instant wealth.
Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe signalled on Monday he had dug his heels in against international and local attempts to bring his government and the opposition to talks to end the country’s crisis.
Botswana ‘not to topple Mugabe’
Nigerian and South African forces guarded the executive mansion of Liberia’s embattled President Charles Taylor with automatic weapons and armoured vehicles on Monday as the war-ravaged country counted down the hours before his promised resignation.
The wage dispute between the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), the Fuel Retailers Association and the Retail Motor Industry, remains unresolved after the two employer organisations failed to increase their wage offer to the union.
Nearly 800 000 drivers did not convert to the new credit-card system of driver’s licence, according to South African Transport Minister Dullah Omar. The deadline was the end of April this year.
A revised Petroleum Pipelines Bill put to the relevant National Assembly committee on Monday provides for guaranteed protection of crude oil supplies to the Natref oil refinery in Sasolburg.