A stronger rand and weaker world markets pulled the rug up from under heavyweight dual-listed and resources stocks on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) on Wednesday, leaving the overall index almost 1% lower just after midday.
Women Against Child Abuse on Tuesday called on the justice system to prevent abused children from having to testify in court.
King Mswati III is going ahead with the purchase of a controversial multi-million-dollar personal jet that will be used to ferry some heads of state from Johannesburg to attend an international conference in Swaziland next week.
In a front-page editorial, Cape Town newspaper Die Burger on Wednesday called for an end to the government’s ”insanity” over Aids.
A new initiative to help set South Africa on a path towards achieving transformation and growth was introduced in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
Out of the crop of sophisticated, accomplished albums with which independent label Open Records recently started business, Alex van Heerden and Derek Gripper’s <i>Sagtevlei</i> is the most consistently fine and immediate, writes Julian Jonker.
The Bush administration is threatening to impose hundreds of millions of pounds in financial sanctions on Israel if it persists in pushing its security fence and wall in the West Bank deep into Palestinian territory.
Harvard Law School is seeking funding for a stalled project that aims, for the first time, to make more than one million pages of documents from the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals available on the internet.
The final draft of the Liquor Bill, which was put to South Africa’s National Assembly trade and industry committee on Wednesday, restricts the advertising of liquor products in a manner which is false and misleading.