A Liberian rebel group engaged in an all-out battle for the country’s war-torn capital said on Tuesday they have ordered their troops to stop fighting.
Projects flowing from the country’s multi-billion rand arms deal have directly created nearly 6 700 jobs, it emerged at an Institute for Security Studies (ISS) seminar in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Officials from four big South African banks held talks in Johannesburg on Tuesday, and discussed the internet banking fraud which recently hit Absa, the largest bank in the country.
Energy efficiency needs to become an integral part of our nation’s psyche. Like we have achieved with smoking in public places, certain energy wasteful practices need to be seen as antisocial and even illegal!
Negotiations in the wake of last week’s coup in Sao Tome and Principe broke up on Tuesday as international mediators began studying proposals made by the new military junta.
US president George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair had been deceived by defectors and intelligence services relying on single sources, Wouter Basson, the former head of Project Coast, South Africa’s apartheid-era chemical and biological weapons programme, said on Tuesday.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe issued a new warning to his political foes on Tuesday against attempts to destabilise the southern African country.
The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco), which represents more than 100 000 taxi owners across the country, has committed itself to a minimum wage and basic conditions of employment in the taxi industry.
Video technology should be used to eliminate the need for awaiting-trial prisoners to be physically present in court merely to have their cases postponed, the SA Law Reform Commission proposed on Tuesday.
International aid and refugee agencies on Tuesday voiced growing concern about a brutal surge in fighting in Liberia in recent days, warning that the humanitarian situation in the west African state was catastrophic.