World Population Day, which will be celebrated on Friday, will focus on the youth of South Africa, social development minister Zola Skweyiya said on Monday.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has posed a number of questions to National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka relating to allegations concerning British arms company BAe Systems.
About 150 South Africans will be killed by guns during the five days (July 7-11) that United Nations member states meet in New York to discuss their progress in curbing the proliferation of small arms, a spokesperson said on Monday.
South Africa’s church leaders will grapple this week with ways to bring African customs and culture into worship when they meet in Pretoria for the second South African Christian Leadership Assembly.
The trial of New Labour Party leader Peter Marais and former deputy social development minister David Malatsi on corruption charges will start in the Cape Town Regional Court next month.
An application by Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and two senior party officials to have treason charges against them dropped has been postponed to next week, a newspaper reported on Monday.
The difficulties faced in transferring ownership of large tourism enterprises to black South Africans were highlighted on Monday, with the release of the South African Tourism Industry Empowerment and Transformation annual review for 2003.
South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the outgoing chairperson of the African Union’s (AU) executive council on Sunday told her successor, Mozambique’s Leonard Simao, that the Pan African Parliament and the continent’s regional economic blocks were key to the continent’s development prospects.
When US President George Bush visits Africa this week, he will find a continent crippled by catastrophe. Millions upon millions are already dead, orphaned or sick from Aids.