Free health care for people with disabilities, as announced by President Thabo Mbeki earlier this year, will come into operation on July 1, Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang announced on Tuesday.
Wits on Tuesday rejected media reports that it was bankrupt. Wits finance director Andre de Wet said the university had launched a range of initiatives in 2000 to stem many of negative trends that dogged the institution.
An outbreak of malaria in Zimbabwe has killed at least 500 people during the first four months this year, compared with the 300 who died of the disease throughout 2002, a health official said on Tuesday.
Rival ethnic groups renewed battle with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars in the streets of an eastern Congo city, as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan struggled to muster a major international force to quell the bloodletting.
President Bush launched a legal challenge at the World Trade Organisation yesterday, to force Europe to accept imports of American genetically modified crops.
The Guardian’s Zimbabwe correspondent, Andrew Meldrum, was yesterday accused of breaking the terms of his residence permit by writing about the country’s political situation.
The terrorists who launched multiple gun and bomb attacks on westerners in Riyadh were believed yesterday to be part of a group that escaped arrest during a botched raid by Saudi police a week ago.
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A businessman facing prosecution for contravening the Insider Trading Act, was denied access to certain information by the Constitutional Court in a judgement handed down on Tuesday.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday he hoped to discuss with President Thabo Mbeki his recent visit to Zimbabwe.