The war on global poverty is a sweetener to help rich nations’ bad medicine go down.
Some criticism of the Broad-Based Economic Empowerment Bill would be accommodated, but the law’s "basic architecture" would remain intact, a senior government official said last week.
A debate about the "sugar daddy" concept is raging in Namibia after a 17-year-old schoolgirl killed herself over a love affair with the number two officer in the Namibian police.
India and China will challenge the West’s control over global trade rules with a united front at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Cancun this September.
Things American may not be the flavour of the month in France right now, and motor-mouthed Texans least of all, but in one far-flung corner of old Europe a small-time farmer bucks the trend. Except that this is no ordinary paysan, and he is not thinking of George W Bush.
Soccer players from 18 countries kicked off a world cup of a different kind on Monday in southern Austria: All the players are homeless.
It is old news — 251-million years old — but the story of what happened then, now told for the first time, demands our urgent attention. Only six degrees separate our world from the cataclysmic end of an ancient era.
Three key markers — trade flows, technological change and cross-border capital flows — suggest globalisation has further marginalised Africa.
United States President George Bush is to arrive at Waterkloof Air Force base outside Pretoria late on Tuesday night for a brief official visit to South Africa. He will be accompanied by his Secretary of State Colin Powell and Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Walter Kansteiner.
Mbeki and Bush to talk money
The neurosurgeons in Singapore who are trying to separate adult Iranian twins joined at the head were forced to slow their unprecedented surgery to a near halt last night as the pressure of the sisters’ brains on each other made the procedure harder than expected.