Attempts to have him testify for the defence in the Boeremag trial amounted to nothing more than politicking, former state president FW de Klerk said on Friday.
The University of Cape Town formally launched a comprehensive HIV/Aids Intervention Programme on Friday for staff who will now receive free anti-retrovirals and counselling.
South African banking group Standard Bank on Friday announced that it has purchased and will supply its new and existing Internet banking customers with McAfee personal firewall and anti-virus software.
Last Sunday morning Mankwanyane, a sleepy village in Empangeni, woke up to the blood-splattered scene of the horror massacre of six members of a family. Survivors believe it was a politically motivated attack by IFP members.
The looming strike in the gold mining sector will be short, if it takes place, but it could scare investors away from South Africa, labour relations advisor Andrew Levy said on Friday.
South African President Thabo Mbeki has signed three key pieces of legislation into law after their passage through the two houses of Parliament, namely the Insurance Amendment Bill, the Appropriation Bill and the Judicial Matters Amendment Bill, according to Parliament.
Negotiators at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) said a deal on providing poor countries with cheaper drugs to treat major diseases such as HIV/Aids was taking shape, as top trading nations prepared to wind up a round of meetings on trade liberalisation talks on Friday.
The rights guaranteed to all South Africans under the Constitution were being eroded in the name of ”necessary but overzealous transformation”, former state president FW de Klerk said on Thursday
At least 11 civilians were killed in an early morning attack on Friday on the diplomatic quarter of Liberia’s capital Monrovia, where the US embassy is situated, journalists reported.
Diamond sales appear to have survived the global economic slowdown and demand for the gem remains strong, De Beers said on Friday on release of its interim results for the first half of 2003.