The Exchange Control Amnesty and Amendment of Taxation Laws Bill was passed by the second house of the South African Parliament, the National Council of Provinces, on Wednesday afternoon.
A shortage of blood and its by-products has hit Zimbabwe, the country’s blood bank said on Wednesday.
President Olusegun Obasanjo promised on Tuesday that a law would soon be enacted prescribing heavy punishment for child and other human traffickers.
Business has misunderstood the issues over the draft Liquor Bill and the industry has read the legislation wrongly, says South African Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin.
Barbara Trapido left South Africa in 1963, but she revisits her homeland in her new novel, writes Libby Brooks from London.
The government’s decision to issue a prospecting permit to an Australian mining company, allowing it to investigate mineral deposits along a pristine stretch of the Eastern Cape’s Wild Coast, has been strongly condemned by the Democratic Alliance.
Zambia’s opposition National Citizens Coalition (NCC) and its charismatic leader Nevers Mumba have joined the ruling party saying they want to help President Levy Mwanawasa fight graft, an official said on Wednesday.
A member of South Africa’s National Council of Provinces — one of the two houses of parliament — has warned fellow members not to develop delusions of grandeur and has even taken the mickey out of President Thabo Mbeki’s fondness for motor cavalcades.
So glaring are the disparities in the performance of Ghana’s two schooling systems that there is mounting public concern to find the causes and resolve them quickly. The move comes amid concerns that the differences may be leading to the foundation of a class system.
In this latest collection of interviews, <b>Edward W Said</b> forces us to examine the politics of identity that leads to seperatism and xenophobia, writes Derek Hook.