Burkina Faso is to import cheaper generic drugs from India for people living with HIV under an agreement with the Chemical Industrial Pharmaceutical Laboratories of India.
Struggling to contain a recent jump in the number of Sars cases, officials in the Chinese capital, Beijing, today announced that they will shut down public schools for two weeks to keep students from spreading the disease.
The government on Wednesday rejected a report by the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) that said it was not honouring its commitments to improve the lives of the poor.
South African Major General Sipho Binda, commander of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping force for Burundi, will head for Bujumbura on Wednesday, says the South African defence ministry.
Fly-fishing as a valuable attraction and national asset is not yet being exploited by South Africa. This country’s game parks, mountain resorts and beaches are among the best in the world. Our fly-fishing waters, too, promise a memorable
experience for the foreign tourist.
Every day since he was secretly spirited into Iraq by the United States military, Ahmad Chalabi, the man favoured by the Pentagon to succeed Saddam Hussein, has been holding court with local dignitaries in Nassiriya. But allegations of financial impropriety linger over Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, the most important of which concern a -million banking scandal in Jordan.
Stanley Mogoba, president of the Pan Africanist Congress, has dissolved the Limpopo provincial executive committee (PEC), the power base of provincial chairperson Maxwell Nemadzhivhanani, his main rival for the party’s presidency.
Investing in sustainable energy sources is becoming increasingly crucial to ensure a better future for all on Earth, says Richard Worthington, Earthlife Africa’s project coordinator for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Partnership.
South African transport parastatal Transnet on Wednesday awarded a R2,4-billion fuel contract to seven black empowerment oil companies.
The Eastern Cape education department is losing R5,3-million a day because of teacher absenteeism alone, says education MEC Nomsa Jajula.