The South African National Treasury on Friday welcomed the decision of international credit ratings agency Fitch to upgrade South Africa, saying it confirmed South Africa’s status as a haven.
An informal group of land experts met in South Africa recently at the invitation of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to analyse constraints to sustainable land reform in Southern Africa.
The secretary general of the Commonwealth, Don McKinnon, admitted yesterday that the body had failed in its efforts to get Mugabe to reform, but said it would keep trying.
Maxwell Nemadzivhanani, the suspended Limpopo chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress, has been instructed to appear before a national disciplinary committee next week at the PAC headquarters in Johannesburg.
De Wet Kritzinger’s shooting spree on a Pretoria bus in 2000 which left three people dead and four wounded was a racist, unscrupulous and unjustifiable deed, Judge Dion Basson said on Friday.
The long and often bitter campaign to end the US navy’s bombing exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques culminated in victory for the islanders yesterday, who celebrated the military pull-out with fireworks displays and parties.
Is moody, suicidal Virginia Woolf too complicated for cinema? Hermione Lee, her biographer, watches The Hours and finds out.
The only safe exit for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe "and his cronies" was through the restoration of the rights of the people and the opening up of democratic space, says Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Zimbabwe’s main labour body marked International Workers’ Day on Thursday by warning thousands of supporters to brace themselves for confrontation, saying things would not improve without a change of regime.
President Thabo Mbeki launched a sophisticated attack on the trade union federation leadership and other left-wing critics — alternating praise with criticism on Workers’ Day on Thursday.