South Africa and India have embarked on a strengthening of economic and political ties via the Fifth South Africa-India Joint Ministerial Commission, taking place over the past three days with the visit to South Africa by India’s Minister of External Affairs, Shri Yaswant Sinha.
Ghanaian health authorities have ordered anti-retroviral drugs from undisclosed sources to cater for the treatment of 2000 HIV/Aids patients for the next two years.
The Zambian government has bought new vehicles for its ministers at a time when the country is facing a huge budget deficit that has led to some donors to withhold aid, an official said on Friday.
South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal provincial economic development and tourism Minister Roger Burrows has released the draft Liquor Licencing Bill for public comment and input.
An organisation campaigning for freedom for Boers met Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi in Pretoria on Friday to convey their concerns.
Two Technikon South Africa (TSA) officials are facing a disciplinary inquiry after a forensic report alleged that they fraudulently authorised staff retrenchments and irregularly made payments to creditors.
Five of the nine provinces had underspent their HIV/Aids grant allocations for the 2002/2003 financial year.
Holidaymakers whose flights are cancelled or delayed will for the first time be legally entitled to have the entire cost of their tickets reimbursed after a vote in the European parliament yesterday.
Anything between 2 000 and 17 000 unexploded British bomblets may remain on the ground in Iraq, posing a daily threat to civilian lives, according to estimates by a British MP.
Zambian church groups said on Friday they had started collecting signatures to petition the government to withdraw Big Brother Africa, a reality TV show, from state television because it promotes ”immorality”.