Dahkpannah Charles Ghankay Taylor, the brutal warlord turned president of Liberia who now stands accused of horrendous war crimes, was on Friday under renewed pressure to go into exile to boost peace efforts in his impoverished west African state.
South Africa’s second largest gold miner Gold Fields is toying with the idea of splitting the group into two companies, one housing its South African operations and the other its international operations, chief executive officer (CEO) Ian Cockerill said on Friday.
The management of South Africa’s major gold and coal mining groups and the National Union Mineworkers signed a wage agreement — which all the parties referred to as ”a milestone” — in Johannesburg on Friday.
Blockbuster of the week: The latest movie in the Terminator trilogy has lost it’s ”The” factor and is unable to trump T2 in the way T2 trumped T1, writes Shaun de Waal.
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) says it may take legal action over the Medicines Control Council’s (MCC) threat to deregister nevirapine.
The west’s leading economic thinktank warned yesterday that the struggling eurozone risked falling further behind the US over the next five years unless it embarks on a programme of deep-seated structural reform.
The Iraq war version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? has its first big winner. The US state department yesterday announced that the person who led the American military to Uday and Qusay Hussein will receive a -million reward.
The Israeli parliament passed a law yesterday that bars Palestinians who marry Israelis from living in Israel.
In a country long-sickened by the level of sexual violence, South African teachers have been encouraged to provide students with skills to cope with the dual threat of gender-based violence and HIV/Aids.
One of the bidders for greater Cape Town’s new film studio plans to create six "backlots" — miniature city recreations — as part of the Hollywood-style complex.