British aid agencies issued a joint statement late on Wednesday in which they called for the urgent deployment of international peacekeepers to war-torn Liberia.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Thursday stated that it fully supported its affiliates, the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, in their wage disputes with employers in the mining, steel and engineering sectors.
The Johannesburg Roads Agency would not remove illegal suburban boom gates until all applications received had been audited to ensure that the right booms were dismantled, Johannesburg executive mayor Amos Masondo said on Wednesday.
Amid a welter of rising prices, citizens of Greece and its tourist visitors are shocked and dismayed to find it is offering Europe’s priciest cup of coffee.
The e-mail scams, often from the widow of an African dictator, or a bank official, promise untold wealth in return for helping to transfer millions of dollars, but now the ”scam-baiters” are hitting back.
The stench inside is so strong that one of the building’s residents likens it to "dog manure simmering in the sun without a breeze to blow it away". Johannesburg’s social housing schemes enjoy mixed success.
The Global Fund for HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria is in need of funding for 2004 and has called on European nations and the British for pledges to raise ,3-billion to meet its goals in 2004.
”Unfortunately though, the Absa spokesperson doesn’t know what he’s talking about as most anti-virus software won’t find half of the programs that constitute spyware.” Ian Fraser advises all PC users how to protect themselves.