Britain is to head an international force of more than 16 000 troops to enhance security and peacekeeping operations in southern Iraq, it emerged yesterday.
India, which has close diplomatic and political ties with South Africa, is to push this week for greater exports to rectify a widening gap in trade with its closest ally on the African continent, Indian officials said.
The schedule for remuneration — part of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act — came into effect on Tuesday, ending much of the uncertainty over the calculation of retrenchment packages and severance pay.
The re-launch of the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) ”sinister campaign” against Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang ”is not worthy of any detailed response”, the minister’s office said on Tuesday.
Tickets for National Arts Festival productions were ”selling like hot cakes” and sales were already 43% up on last year.
In a sunny corner of the world where nothing much ever happened, Martin Moreno climbed atop a leaking American hydrogen bomb and smiled as he tried to pry loose a souvenir.
The son of Patrice Lumumba, the assassinated first prime minister of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Tuesday said the ethnic nature of the country’s new transition government would lead the vast central African state back into war.
Of the first 42 American presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are the only ones to make extended visits to Africa. On Monday, it will be George Bush’s turn.
South Africa’s property market is poised for further acceleration as the combined influence of five factors, all individually capable of boosting property sales, hit the market almost simultaneously, according to market participants on Wednesday.
Revenues collected by the South African government in the first two months of the new 2003-04 fiscal year are so far lagging those received in 2002, according to the latest monthly data on revenue, expenditure and borrowing released by the National Treasury.