The British-based banking group Standard Chartered is in the process of acquiring the local on-line financial services firm 20twenty and is to open a full-service bank in South Africa.
Liberian President Charles Taylor expects to be shielded from prosecution for war crimes once he is in exile in Nigeria, his spokesperson said Tuesday.
If South Africa does not implement a large scale Aids treatment plan soon, five million South Africans will die from Aids in the next eight to 10 years.
Child-headed households find it impossible to access help from community members or government, the South African Aids Conference in Durban heard on Tuesday.
Zambia’s former president Frederick Chiluba was charged on Tuesday with stealing -million of public funds and committing dozens of other offences while in office, police said.
Families displaced during the Ethiopia-Eritrea war are still not returning home because of the danger of landmines and the impending demarcation of the border.
Human capital management and marketing advisory services firm Adcorp Holdings Limited on Tuesday announced a multi-million rand empowerment deal.
Embattled Liberian President Charles Taylor will hand over power to his deputy next Monday, President Thabo Mbeki said on Tuesday. ”President Taylor will leave Liberia after the installation of that vice-president on Monday,” Mbeki told reporters in Pretoria.
Government departments and parastatals will be required to submit a plan and report-back every two years on their progress in implementing black economic empowerment (BEE), according to the latest version of the Broad-Based BEE Bill.
An amnesty giving people an opportunity to hand over illegal firearms without prosecution is being considered, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said on Tuesday.