The only way to solve the brain drain is for businesses to start investing in their employees, says Ian Macun of the Immigration Advisory Board.
The University of Cape Town’s health sciences faculty has expressed ”extreme concern” over the threatened partial deregistration of the anti-retroviral nevirapine.
Democratic Alliance (DA) Chief Whip Douglas Gibson on Thursday asked National Assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala to grant a special debate on the spiralling levels of crime in South Africa.
Retired Kenyan politician Richard Leakey on Thursday labelled the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) ”an excellent idea”, but said he was surprised it had not achieved more.
Any changes to the powers and functions of the Scorpions should be carried out by Parliament, as that institution created the investigating unit, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Thursday.
President Charles Taylor on Thursday said he resented massive international pressure on him to leave Liberia, but reiterated a pledge to step down and hand over power to his deputy.
The two men haggling over the fate of 14 European hostages held in the wilderness of the Malian desert both have a reputation as tough desert warriors responsible for attacks on government troops in their respective countries.
A car bomb killed 11 people and wounded 57 when it exploded outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad on Thursday, causing rage and panic in the bloodiest attack in the capital since Saddam Hussein was toppled four months ago.
The four armed men who killed a bank security guard during a cash heist in Johannesburg on Thursday morning were still at large by mid-afternoon, police reported.
Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday skipped a planned resignation speech to parliament as west African peacekeepers began patrolling the war-riven capital Monrovia.