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The global toll from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) climbed above 500 dead and 7 000 infected on Thursday as the World Health Organisation declared that the disease is far more deadly than it previously thought.
Banks in Africa, the United Kingdom and Europe must have converted their magnetic stripe cards to ”smart cards” by January 2005 to combat fraud, Absa executive member Leon du Plessis said on Wednesday.
Standard and Poor’s (S&P) has joined other international ratings agencies in raising its long term foreign currency ratings on South Africa, the National Treasury said on Thursday.
Africa must help its 11-million Aids orphans or risk them being driven to the margins of society, All Africa Conference of Churches President Kwesi Dickson warned on Wednesday.
A fortune hangs on the judge’s ruling in the legal battle over Winnie the Pooh, writes Duncan Campbell from Los Angeles.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has gained an important victory in the Mother City’s lower-middle class coloured suburb of Grassy Park. The by-election is one of eight held on Wednesday.
Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among the world’s five worst conflict zones in which to be a woman or a child, according to a new report.
Jack Milne, the managing director of PSC Guaranteed Growth, was on Thursday arrested by the South African Police Service Serious Economic Offences unit in connection with fraud totalling about R250-million.
Researchers have found two species of beetle to be a potent weapon in Africa’s fight against water hyacinths, an aquatic plant indigenous to Brazil that has become a devastating superweed.