Restaurants, pubs, taverns and even fast-food outlets across South Africa will soon be rated for the first time in terms of a formal star grading system, the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa said on Tuesday.
The South African rand broke below the key technical level of R7,72 per dollar to reach a new 2003 best level.
South Africa President Thabo Mbeki says the government has not been and will not be party to litigation against corporations that benefited from the apartheid system.
Legislation will be put to the South African Parliament this year to ease the release of information from the National Population Registry to the private sector, says Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
The advancement towards a cashless society took another step forward on Tuesday when petroleum giant BP, in partnership with Absa Bank, announced the introduction of an automated tag system which allows customers to refuel without the use of cash or a card and have their Absa account simultaneously debited.
Birds can eat too many worms, paper kites can cripple them and even crows with cast-iron stomachs develop aches in the pollution-rife Indian capital.
US forces on Tuesday tried to hamper the media from covering a third day of anti-American protests by Iraqis outside a hotel housing a US operations base here.
The Democratic Alliance on Monday detailed a remarkable set of accusations against the top management of the South African Bureau of Standards, including allegations some are involved in fraud and child pornography.
Tuberculosis patients in South Africa now have a new weapon in the fight against the disease — a cellphone.
Massive debt and constantly decreasing membership figures forced the Congress of SA Trade Unions to take urgent steps to address these problems, according to the trade union federation’s organisational review report released on Monday.