After months of long-distance sabre-rattling, envoys from the United States and North Korea began quiet face-to-face talks in Beijing yesterday amid warnings that any mis-step could have calamitous consequences.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Thursday condemned the South African Reserve Bank’s role in what it calls "overvaluing the rand".
Just over a year ago South Africa’s northern neighbour, Zimbabwe, went to the polls and controversially re-elected Robert Mugabe as president. However, South Africa’s bad neighbour has fallen off the currency market’s radar screen.
A New National Party (NNP) member of the National Council of Provinces Piet Matthee has had his job saved by South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC).
While typical international experience has shown that a successful tax amnesty could bring in about 10% of all offshore funds, Germany, which is also considering an amnesty, has said about a third of its estimated flight capital could be repatriated.
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A French biologist voiced concern this week that the combination of Aids and severe acute respiratory syndrome will lead to terrible loss of lives.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s counsel has rejected assertions that his client was ”infamous” and that she and her followers could express their ”wrath” towards opponents.
The US military has admitted that children aged 16 years and younger are among the detainees being interrogated at its prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Burundi’s parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday to recognise the statutes of the United Nation’s permanent war crimes court, state radio reported.