There is an Arab guessing game known as ”who is next?” The next candidate, that is, for the ”reform” or ”regime change” the Bush administration’s neo-conservative hawks — in their drive to reshape the Middle East — will demand now that Saddam Hussein is ousted.
The Lesotho government has established an anti-corruption unit to root out fraud, bribery and malpractices among public officials, says Home Affairs Minister Tom Thabane.
Sixty-three people had been confirmed dead by Thursday afternoon after the bus they were travelling in plunged into a dam near Bethlehem in the eastern Free State, according to African National Congress.
80 feared dead in horror bus crash
The retail price of petrol will go down by 38 cents per litre from next Wednesday, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Thursday.
The Communications ministry on Wednesday announced the names of five companies bidding for the second national operator (SNO) fixed line license.
In the past six weeks much debate has been generated over whether blacks are worse off today than they were before 1994. Many of us "nouveau" free South Africans experience a sense of shock at being forced to respond to this question.
Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana’s inspectors on Wednesday "blitzed" media houses in Johannesburg – including offices of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) – to assess compliance with labour legislation.
A fundamental model for the rand indicates that the South African currency, at just more than R7 to the dollar, is probably somewhat overvalued, according to Absa’s Group Economic Research Department.
US troops in the frontline are getting an ”armed services edition” of books calculated to inspire them. This idea fits in with a long tradition of literature for soldiers, writes .
At least 84 people were killed and 390 injured on Thursday when a strong earthquake rocked south-eastern Turkey. Rescuers dug frantically to rescue more than 100 children believed to be trapped under debris after their school collapsed.