The retail price of petrol in South Africa will rise by 18 cents a litre on Wednesday August 6, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Friday.
Pressure mounts on Scorpions as scope of investigation expands.
French soldiers deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) northeastern town of Bunia have heard distressing accounts of brutality from residents of surrounding villages, but their peacekeeping mandate is limited.
"Hunting dogs are sent into the veld by their owners to catch animals. When the dogs have caught them, the owners eat all the meat and then throw the dogs the bones. The only difference between hunting dogs and mineworkers is that we are sent underground to catch gold."
Embattled former transport minister Mac Maharaj and his wife Zarina have become the latest ”victims” of an apparent leak from the Scorpions unit.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma this week went for the jugular as he staged a counter-attack against the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions and its chief Bulelani Ngcuka.
When President Thabo Mbeki wrote to his Nigerian counterpart in 1999 to support an application to buy crude oil from that country, the wording was ambiguous. When he responded last week to the apparently fraudulent diversion of the resulting contract, it only added to the confusion.
A severe shortage of Zimbabwean banknotes has led to riots in Harare as people have shattered banks’ plate glass windows and desperate workers, including police and army troops, have camped outside banks to wait for deliveries.
A Malawian journalist has been sacked from an Islamic radio station for broadcasting an interview with wives of five alleged al-Qaeda members deported last month from the southern African country under US orders, a radio official said on Thursday.
The world cannot just watch as west Africa falls apart, the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, said last week.