With apartheid South Africa it was crystal clear. There was a transnational, cross sector, multi-class, multi-race, solidarity against the regime and for the people of South Africa. Not, however, in the case of Zimbabwe now — decidedly and distinctively not.
Europeans sweating through an abnormally hot August faced little immediate prospect of relief on Monday after a weekend of record-setting temperatures, many deaths and runaway fires.
Ghana’s Ashanti Goldfields on Monday confirmed that it had received a proposal from Randgold Resources, 45% held by Randgold & Exploration, to acquire its issued share capital.
Tens of thousands of lives are at risk because of a lack of drugs needed to fight a malaria epidemic threatening Ethiopia, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned.
Suspected Absa hacker Johannes Jacobus Fourie made his third brief appearance in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Monday following his arrest last month after the bank accounts of Absa clients were hacked and more than R500 000 removed.
Gold shares were propping up the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa at noon on Monday as they continued to show strength on the back of a higher bullion price and a sterling performance by their ADRs in New York on Friday.
The Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital will run out of meat this week as a result of non-payment to their meat supplier, the Democratic Alliance Gauteng Health spokesman Jack Bloom said on Sunday.
The Democratic Alliance said on Sunday it had no faith in Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang ‘s ability to be in charge of the new government plan on HIV and Aids.
America’s hottest new reality show got under way at the weekend as 158 candidates, including an action hero, a former child actor, a billboard pin-up and a sumo wrestler, filed to run for the job as governor of California.
President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday paid tribute to Orlando Pirates striker Lesley Manyathela who died in a car accident on Saturday night.
SA weeps at death of Bucs star