The international press watchdog Reporters without Borders (RSF) has protested the seizure by Rwandan police of the first issue of a new independent weekly newspaper.
Afrikaner weddings provide an equal chance of becoming the party of the year or the most grotesque event the guests have ever attended. And the main actors often feel the same way: the wedding is either the best day in the married couple’s lives, or they burn all the pictures and pretend it never happened.
The executive director of Nedlac, Phillip Dexter, will quit at the end of June. Ferial Haffajee asks him what he thinks he has achieved.
Eager United States companies are queuing up for a piece of what could be billions of dollars of work in rebuilding Iraq. Questions remain about the United Nations’s role after the war; how Iraq’s oil income will be used; and whether countries other than the US will help finance reconstruction.
Despite receiving a number of objections from the industry to the proposed acquisition of products by The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) from Appletiser South Africa (Pty) Ltd, the Competition Commission has approved the intermediate transaction without conditions.
Senior African National Congress members Dumisani Makhaye and Mike Mabuyakulu were restored to the KwaZulu-Natal government on Wednesday as the MECs for agriculture and public works respectively, after the second stand-off this year between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party.
One of the largest funded Aids programmes undertaken by a church was announced by Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane. The R222-million programme aimed to reduce the stigma and discrimination surrounding HIV/Aids.
Zimbabwe was largely brought to a halt yesterday by a three-day strike called by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions in protest at the government’s decision last week to triple the price of fuel.
South Africa’s differences with the United States over the war in Iraq will not affect ”the many sided relations” South Africa had with the US, says Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
About 80 women and children urged 26 African countries on Wednesday to honour promises they made three years ago to help fight malaria.