Staff at the University of the North West have stayed away from work following a dispute with campus managers over recruitment and promotion, it emerged on Thursday.
Confirmed burglaries at some ministerial residences in Pretoria drew a stony silence from the police on Thursday. ”The SA Police Service is not commenting,” said national spokesperson Senior Superintendent Selby Bokaba.
Black women account for five percent of news sources in South Africa although they represent 45% of the population, a study on gender in editorial content of the media said on Thursday.
Global economic weakness, an ongoing world bear market in equities and the rand’s strength saw a continuation of the downward trend began in 2002 in equity trading volumes on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE).
Agricultural research and support is to be hampered on Thursday as hundreds of agricultural researchers and members of the trade union Solidarity embark on strike action at the Agricultural Research Council (ARC).
South African diamond miner De Beers on Thursday cautioned that theft at its Premier Mine at Cullinan could threaten the future of the operation and jeopardise jobs.
Fingerprints, DNA and behavioural characteristics are unique and difficult to forge, but using them to identify an individual in the modern world is legally problematic.
An Indonesian court on Thursday found an Islamic militant called Amrozi guilty of the Bali bombing last October and sentenced him to death.
A civil society meeting on Zimbabwe in Gaborone on Thursday condemned human rights violations in Zimbabwe and called for intervention there by other African governments and institutions.
Algeria on Wednesday announced the formation of a committee to link the government and thousands of families who say their loved ones disappeared at the hands of state security forces during the 1990s.