Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota’s failure to disclose his fuel and wine businesses to Parliament, as required by law, is expected to be on the agenda of the African National Congress’s national executive committee meeting this weekend.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=14586">Lekota eats humble pie</a><br>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=14579">ANC welcomes fast action on Lekota</a><br>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=14580">Lekota out of pocket by just R11 485</a><br>
The number of women who claim they were raped by British soldiers in Kenya over the past 20 years has doubled to more than 400, with lawyers investigating more than 200 new allegations this week.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Thursday urged his supporters to debate his succession but expressed dismay that some officials had already started consulting occult and supernatural specialists over the issue.
In 1880 a leader of a Swazi secessionist group allowed a white businessman to settle on his group’s land. Forty-one years later the tenant had become the landowner and the former landlords were mere serfs.
Rescue workers dug through the rubble of dozens of collapsed buildings in northern Algeria yesterday after an earthquake reportedly killed more than 1 000 people.
The oil from postwar Iraq was expected to start flowing to the world’s markets after the UN security council yesterday gave America the legal cover to occupy the country and control its resources.
Dead bodies litter Bunia’s empty streets. From some the blood still drips from machete slashes, spear thrusts and bullet wounds. Others are two weeks old and stinking, half-eaten by the packs of dogs flopping lazily about the once-prosperous north-eastern capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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South Africa’s net open foreign currency position (NOFP) has now moved into positive territory following the booking of the proceeds of the government’s â,¬1,25-billion (about R11-billion or $1,4-billion) eurobond issue last week, according to South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Governor Tito Mboweni.