Zambia is experiencing a critical fuel shortage that has forced the government to look to South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Iran for urgent supplies, according to a top government official in the Ministry of Energy and Water Development.
Children are the main target of the 17-year Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency which is terrorising civilians in northern Uganda and seeks to topple President Yoweri Museveni.
While corporates continue to call for deregulation, the South African Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana reassured workers on Thursday that affirmative action was not about to be abandoned, nor was there going to be amendments to the employment equity act.
Some of South Africa’s new political parties formed during the recent defection period have turned into family affairs.
Even though a MacDonald’s Big Mac burger now costs $1,91 in South Africa, that is still almost 30% below what a Big Mac costs in America, namely $2,71.
Shareholders in South African mining group Gencor (GMF) on Friday approved resolutions authorising the unbundling of its shareholding in Impala Platinum Holdings Limited (Implats IMP).
South African listed short-term insurer Mutual & Federal (MAF) has made an offer to acquire the 65% interest in Credit Guarantee Insurance Corporation of Africa ltd (CGIC) that it does not already own for a cash consideration of R198,486-million, equating to R112 per CGIC share, Mutual & Federal announced on Thursday.
GlaxoSmithKline, the British pharmaceutical giant, has slashed the price of its Aids drugs to sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world’s poorest countries, it announced today.
Zimbabwean authorities have barred the burial of a young Zimbabwean soldier who died in action while fighting for the British army in the war in Iraq, members of the family confirmed on Sunday.
President Thabo Mbeki called on Afrikaner professionals on Sunday to assist in the reconciliation and reconstruction of South Africa.