Eight municipal by-elections take place on Wednesday May 7 which will test the mettle of South Africa’s three major political parties — the African National Congress (ANC), the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).
In a society where an estimated 2,1-million people out of a population of 29-million already have HIV, Kenyan school children are tackling Aids head on. They need to — they have already lost their parents to the disease.
A number of illegal explosive devices were found on a farm belonging to a former military instructor near Warden over the weekend, say eastern Free State police.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon are due to meet on Wednesday for talks likely to be dominated by Zimbabwe.
Addressing a gathering of the continent’s editors in Johannesburg earlier this month, President Thabo Mbeki delivered a caustic analysis of the state of Africa’s media. But these shortcomings are by no means a reflection of the ineptitude of Africa’s journalists.
The Republican party has scheduled its 2004 party convention unusually late in the year so that the climactic moment when President Bush’s re-election campaign begins will nearly coincide with the third anniversary of the September 11 attack, according to a report yesterday.
The UN chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, yesterday condemned the prewar efforts of British and American intelligence to show that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and insisted that, without UN verification, their postwar inspections lacked credibility.
South Africa’s "big four" commercial banks are expected to post earnings rises of between 15% and 16% in both 2003 and 2004, a forecast performance that is beginning to be discounted in their share prices, according to Old Mutual Asset Managers.
South Africa’s insurers can expect to experience difficult sales conditions over the near-term as they encounter negative sentiment from investors who have seen very poor returns — less than 5% in most cases — on their maturing policies.