FirstRand’s investigation into Mac Maharaj has trashed the reputation of the former transport minister.
South African and Mozambican police have seized 30 luxury vehicles worth an estimated R5,5-million. Intelligence on the theft of vehicles in South Africa led authorities to a warehouse in Mozambique where the vehicles were kept for distribution.
Cautiously optimistic health-care workers and Aids activists are playing a waiting game in response to the government’s surprise announcement last week that it will roll out universal anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was in positive territory in noon trade on Friday, helped by a slightly weaker rand, a strong close on the Dow overnight and
positive United States futures. However, volumes were thin — just under half a
billion rand worth of shares had changed hands.
Desperate for food, tens of thousands of civilians broke through barricades on Monrovia’s front-line bridges on Friday, reuniting Liberia’s war-divided capital after 10 weeks of rebel siege. Many of those pouring across were also searching for their families.
The African National Congress is heating up its rhetorical campaign against those groups it labels ”ultra-left”.
The owner of the Johannesburg club The Ranch continues his legal battle against the authorities on Friday in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein.
The 370 Technikon Witwatersrand students arrested during alleged illegal protests were given an option on Friday to each pay a R100 admission of guilt fine in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court.
McDonald’s Corp said on Thursday it would offer wireless Internet access to 60 of its Chicago-area restaurants as it rolls out its Wi-Fi service to the US Midwest.
Five of the country’s largest political parties face litigation to compel them to reveal their sources of private funding.