A new initiative to help set South Africa on a path towards achieving transformation and growth was introduced in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
Out of the crop of sophisticated, accomplished albums with which independent label Open Records recently started business, Alex van Heerden and Derek Gripper’s <i>Sagtevlei</i> is the most consistently fine and immediate, writes Julian Jonker.
The Bush administration is threatening to impose hundreds of millions of pounds in financial sanctions on Israel if it persists in pushing its security fence and wall in the West Bank deep into Palestinian territory.
Harvard Law School is seeking funding for a stalled project that aims, for the first time, to make more than one million pages of documents from the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals available on the internet.
South African telecommunications giant Telkom is planning a further headcount reduction over the next five years, however, CEO Sizwe Nxasana says this will be done responsibly.
South African media group New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) said on Tuesday that it has received a number of non-binding indicative offers for its bidding process which it initiated recently.
The final draft of the Liquor Bill, which was put to South Africa’s National Assembly trade and industry committee on Wednesday, restricts the advertising of liquor products in a manner which is false and misleading.
The Health Department reacted angrily on Tuesday to comments made by the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Njongonkulu Ndungane, about the independent Medicines Control Council’s (MCC) threat to de-list the anti-retroviral drug nevirapine.
Fears of a fresh wave of Islamist bombings swept Indonesia yesterday, after a powerful car bomb exploded outside a luxury hotel in central Jakarta during the lunchtime rush, killing at least 13 people and injuring about 150.
About 600 members of the National Union of Mineworkers are set to embark on a strike at Rex Mining, a diamond mine near Kimberley, from Wednesday evening following the breakdown of wage negotiations that began in April.