Investors, both foreign and local, should take the risk of investing in South Africa in a bid to build a ”decent” society out of the ruins of apartheid, SA Institute of Race Relations chief executive Johan Kane-Berman said in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
New moves were afoot on Tuesday to get former president FW de Klerk to testify in the Boeremag treason trial after the Pretoria High Court set aside a subpoena calling him as a defence witness.
A cockfight over endangered birds is jeopardising an R8-million ecotourism project that offers a lifeline to an impoverished community in the Free State.
Rebels have captured Liberia’s second-largest city of Buchanan, defeating President Charles Taylor’s embattled forces on a new front and depriving him of his last significant port outside the besieged capital.
More than 3 000 internet banking customers a day are downloading Standard Bank’s free McAfee anti-virus and firewall software. In addition, the bank has detected and eliminated over 85 000 viruses on customers’ personal computers, it said on Tuesday.
The City of Cape Town has approved a R300-million first phase development for the Khayelitsha Business District (KBD).
The Aids pandemic in Africa is being worsened by the flight of many health professionals to other continents, Botswanan Local Government Minister Gladys Kokorwe warned on Monday at the opening of a five-day conference on the disease.
A Cape Town housing project is bringing home the benefits of sustainable power and energy efficiency, improving the quality of life for the underprivileged, and is helping South Africa comply with the Kyoto Protocol.
Hunger is responsible for the re-emergence of a custom which sees families forcing young daughters into relationships with older men in order to pay off debts or secure loans, the Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has found.
Libyan officials have still not met a UN Security Council requirement that they accept responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the State Department said on Monday.