Charities and non-profit organisations received donations of nearly R60-billion rand between March 2000 and February 2001 from the public, according to South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel.
The United States has lifted most remaining sanctions against war-torn Iraq in a bid to spur the country’s economy, while warning it will not tolerate an Iranian-style Islamist regime there.
Proposals ranging from a complete ban on all forms of ”adult entertainment”, to planning for legalised sex work were made to a Cape Town city council task group on Tuesday.
New home affairs Director General Barry Gilder signed his contract with Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Tuesday.
Michael Jackson is facing bankruptcy, according to the people he hired five years ago to take care of his financial affairs. But the singer’s lawyers claim that Jackson is not suffering so much from financial woes as an illness caused by a surfeit of lawsuits.
Secret negotiations between China and the Dalai Lama are due to resume after the arrival in Beijing last night of two senior envoys of the Tibetan spiritual leader.
A strong aftershock rocked already quake-ravaged areas of Algeria, collapsing a 15-story building with three people inside and injuring more than 200 others, the interior ministry said.
The large Lourensford wine farm near Somerset West, has embarked on the South African wine industry’s first fully-fledged waste water recovery project that will see the creation of two hectares of man-made wetlands.
The board of directors of banking group FirstRand have decided to extend former transport minister Mac Maharaj’s leave of absence as a director of the company for a further two months.
One of the greatest threats to the realisation of child rights in South Africa and in sub-Saharan Africa is the HIV/Aids pandemic, the University of Cape Town’s Children’s Institute said on Tuesday.