The annual trading season of Zimbabwe’s lucrative tobacco crop opens on Wednesday with an anticipated drop in production of about a third from last year.
In the latest court ruling against Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday, declared two sections of the new Immigration Act unconstitutional and invalid.
Nigeria’s main opposition party has rejected the re-election of President Olusegun Obasanjo, alleging that the ballot was rigged and saying that any new government would be illegitimate.
Trade union leaders said on Tuesday that the entire country was insulted by remarks made by the king that democracy was unsuitable for Swaziland.
Four Zimbabwean trade union officials were arrested for helping organise a strike to protest rocketing gasoline prices in the country, trade union leaders said on Tuesday.
The government must immediately carry out the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the treatment of mothers living with HIV and Aids, as well as their newly born babies, according to a SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) report.
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A young woman who approached Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in the dock in the Pretoria Regional Court and was removed by bodyguards on Tuesday, said she supported the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) president.
Winnie’s testimony ‘fuzzy’
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Free State Agriculture (FSA) announced on Tuesday it is to take a local council to court over its imposition of land tax.
The Limpopo province has the lowest concentration of doctors in South Africa, with just 9,5 for every 100 000 of the population, according to figures released by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.