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Ayanda Ntsaluba, director general of health, will take a new post as director general of foreign affairs in September, senior sources in the department confirmed this week.
<b>Movie of the week</b><br>
<i>Whale Rider</i> is a good movie, not a <i>great one</i>, lacking complexity and depth but delivering a sensitive and insightful portrayal of modern day Maori life, writes Shaun de Waal.
South Africa and Ghana will be the first African countries to be scrutinised under the New Partnership for Africa’s Development’s (Nepad) peer review mechanism, SABC news reported on Friday.
A Singapore-registered tanker laden with crude oil was in trouble on Friday between Mozambique and Madagascar, say shipping officials.
A national forum to curtail racism is to be launched in Pretoria next week, the justice department said on Friday.
Cape Town Archbishop Ndungane Njongonkulu has challenged a statement by a group of conservative evangelical archbishops from Africa, Asia and Australia who are warning of a schism in the church over homosexuality if a US church tries to confirm a gay bishop.
The United States authorities in Iraq were last night wrestling with the thorny problem of how to dispose of the bullet-riddled bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein after their ”touched up” corpses were shown off to the world yesterday.
President George Bush hosted a Palestinian prime minister at the White House for the first time in his presidency yesterday in a visit designed to quicken a sluggish peace process and shore up the authority of his guest
The Aids Healthcare Foundation, the largest non-governmental supplier of Aids treatment to patients in the United States, won the first round of a legal battle yesterday to break GlaxoSmithKline’s hold over the patent on AZT, the first Aids drug.