The liquor industry gave the revised Liquor Bill a tentative thumbs-up on Wednesday, but lauded the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for extensive consultation on the controversial measure.
The Nigerian government, which has offered asylum to Liberian President Charles Taylor, said on Wednesday it will not negotiate over an international arrest warrant he faces for alleged war crimes.
Former transport minister Mac Maharaj has responded to an audit report detailing alleged payments and gifts to him from Durban businessman Schabir Shaik and Nkobi Holdings, FirstRand said on Wednesday.
Zimbabwe’s embattled white farmers said on Wednesday that only an end to the country’s political turmoil and a return to good governance will save agriculture, the mainstay of the economy, from collapse.
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) wants to have new regulations governing the proposed mandatory national 10-digit dialling system published by December, because of a looming shortage of telephone numbers in the country.
The bomb which ripped through a hotel in the Indonesian capital Jakarta was detonated by a mobile phone, police said on Wednesday.
The drafters of the Sexual Offences Bill are investigating the cost of providing anti-retroviral treatment to rape victims, Parliament’s justice portfolio committee heard on Wednesday.
The Medicines Control Council (MCC) played with semantics at the South African Aids conference on Wednesday when it said it would not ban nevirapine — except, perhaps, for use in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Anglican Communion, said on Wednesday he had ”great confidence” that rifts caused by his appointment could be healed.