Former security guard Luyanda Mboniswa has been found guilty of murdering former first lady Marike de Klerk, but not guilty on a rape charge.
The government should review all public holidays of a religious nature, the National Association of School Governing Bodies said on Tuesday.
Commissioner Thuli Madonsela, speaking for the Commission for Employment Equity, has hinted that forthcoming employment equity reports from companies could challenge previous statistics that painted a positive picture of workplace transformation.
Two months after the implementation of the law on minimum wages in the South African agricultural sector came to force and talk of retrenchments in the sector is rife, but the Labour Department refuses to budge on the new law.
Northern Ireland’s nationalists and the Irish government demanded explanations from London on Monday after it was revealed that a top-level mole had been working inside the Irish Republican Army for the British government for over 20 years.
African defence experts gathered on Monday in Ethiopia to lay the groundwork for a continent-wide peacekeeping force that aims to provide rapid reaction to crises and conflicts within Africa.
The Liquor Bill currently before the South African National Assembly trade and industry committee threatens the job security of 20% of all employees at SABMiller (SAB), the company said in a submission on Tuesday.
Silvio Berlusconi this week set a dubious precedent in Italian legal history by becoming the first serving prime minister to appear at his own trial. The latest twist in Berlusconi’s corruption trial has sent the Italian political class into spasms of fear.
An Iraqi-born British billionaire, reputedly Britain’s seventh-richest man, is one of 37 company administrators and business partners accused of involvement in France’s biggest post-war financial scandal in which the oil firm, now TotalFinaElf, allegedly paid out huge bribes and backhanders to expand its empire.
Shell capped a record first quarter for the oil majors by announcing a doubling of earnings this week, as war in Iraq, turmoil in Nigeria and strikes in Venezuela provoked a surge in prices.