President Thabo Mbeki signalled his support on Tuesday for another interest rate cut, saying: ”Cheaper money would be good for the economy.”
The Pentagon today came under fire for a novel idea to create a futures trading market to help it predict terrorist attacks and assassinations in the Middle East.
Myanmar’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that if his country releases pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi too soon it could trigger unrest.
Children with a higher than average IQ were given a boost on Tuesday when the Education Minister Kader Asmal, said they should be nurtured and promoted and that they could add value to society as a whole.
Zimbabwe’s top church leaders plan to visit South Africa and Nigeria as part of their bid to press their own country’s rival political parties to resolve the political crisis here, a clergyman said on Tuesday.
Zambian lawmakers were to begin debate on Tuesday on a controversial motion to impeach President Levy Mwanawasa for violating the Constitution by appointing a vice president they say is unqualified.
The first convictions under a draconian new French law that makes hanging around in the hallway of an apartment block a crime punishable by prison yesterday drew an angry response from social workers and human rights groups.
Graca Machel on Tuesday urged Ugandan authorities to share lessons learned in its fight against Aids with other African states.
Rhodes University has fought off a R1-million bid by newspaper company Caxton for South Africa’s oldest family-run newspaper, Grocott’s Mail.
Rebels fighting for control of the Liberian capital Monrovia on Tuesday declared a unilateral ceasefire and said it would go into effect immediately, a rebel delegate to peace talks in Accra said.