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.
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.
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.
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.