The assumption that information and communications technology provides a potent antidote to unemployment in South Africa is drawn into serious question by a study released this week.
South Africa’s second largest gold miner, Gold Fields, is set to invest $160-million on the expansion of its Tarkwa mine in Ghana.
Jo-Anne Richards published her first novel, <em>The Innocence of Roast Chicken</em>, in 1996. It deals with growing up under apartheid. Her second, <em>Touching the Lighthouse</em> (1998), is about the radical politics of the 1980s. Her new novel, <em>Sad at the Edges</em> (Stephan Phillips), is about a South African woman’s return to vibrant Johannesburg after a sojourn in London. Richards lives in Johannesburg, has worked as a journalist and teaches in the postgraduate journalism programme at Wits University.
Fears that the United States, backed by Britain, may be plotting to create a climate for "regime change" in Zimbabwe goaded the South African government into a more "hands-on" approach to its northern neighbour.
Bodies lay in the streets of the DRC town of Bunia on Friday, following a day of clashes between rival militia groups vying to fill a power vacuum left by departing Ugandan soldiers, witnesses said.
Amnesty International on Thursday criticised a reciprocal
impunity agreement between the war-ravaged west African country of Sierra Leone and the United States, saying it would allow perpetrators of war crimes to go unpunished
The South African Reserve Bank should cut interest rates and buy US dollars to stabilise the rand exchange rate, Old Mutual Asset Management head of asset allocation Charles De Kock said on Thursday.
In one of the largest private equity and black economic empowerment deals of the year, a consortium of private equity investors has announced the acquisition of all the businesses and shares of Ozz Limited, one of SAs largest engineering manufacturing companies.
A Klerksdorp inventor demonstrated to the media on Thursday a propulsion system which he claims defies the laws of physics and is set to change the world.
The plane carrying the human rights minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ntumba Luaba, was hit by gunfire on Thursday as it was taking off from the troubled northeastern DRC town of Bunia.