In a stunning role reversal, two African presidents demanded on Friday that the United States apply its free trade preaching to itself — by lifting generous state subsidies paid to southern cotton farmers.
Armed police backed by bulldozers tore down illegally built homes and shops in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday ahead of a visit by US President George Bush.
While no country can afford an unfocused or undisciplined young population, the dynamism of youth should be nurtured and responsibly channelled, Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya said on Friday.
A 37-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly slit his wife’s throat in front of their two daughters in their home in Athlone, Cape Town, early on Friday, police said.
Authorities in Iraq announced this week that nine lions due to be transferred from Uday Hussein’s private zoo to South African wildlife rehabilitation centres will not be released ”in these unstable times”.
Inkathagate was the story of how the apartheid-era South African Police provided funds to the Inkatha Freedom Party to help it oppose the African National Congress.
The Inkatha Freedom Party is plotting to use taxpayers’ money to enhance the profiles of its leaders and ”knock” the image of African National Congress leaders in KwaZulu-Natal ahead of the 2004 election.
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A Mafia-like cartel in Johannesburg is campaigning relentlessly to undermine emergency services in the city, according to city manager Pascal Moloi. He said the cartel was so effective that it had caused a mass exodus of trained emergency personnel.
Census 2001 provides the government with a tool to plan development and allocation of resources better than ever before.
The Department of Social Development is investigating Cash Paymaster Services’s (CPS) administration of pensions in KwaZulu-Natal.