Eskom has agreed to write off R1,391-billion in arrear payments owed to it in the greater Johannesburg area, says the electricity parastatal.
Regret, shock, sympathy and condolences for the families of the estimated 80 people feared dead in a bus accident were expressed by President Thabo Mbeki and acting transport minister Jeff Radebe.
US Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan last night dampened speculation of a cut in American interest rates as he echoed Gordon Brown in talking up the prospects for the global economy in the aftermath of war in Iraq.
Ships of the Nigerian navy were steaming towards four offshore oil rigs to confront striking workers who have held dozens of British and American colleagues hostage in a two-week stand-off.
US troops fired at civilians as an angry crowd protested at the killing of 14 people in the bloodiest incident since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
A suicide bomber and his accomplice who murdered three people and wounded scores at a Tel Aviv bar yesterday carried British passports and travelled to Israel specifically to kill, according to local officials.
Within range of rebel guns, Nelson Mandela presided over the inauguration of a new Burundian president, in his latest effort to end an ethnically based civil war which has been threatening a second genocide in central Africa for almost a decade.
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Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has slammed the government for dabbling in the science of Aids, and says it is ”outrageous” that people are denied treatment.
South African leaders are to share their experience of the transition to democracy with Israeli and Palestinians at a special conference beginning on Sunday.