A possible case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) — which has killed more than 100 people worldwide — has been identified in Pretoria, the Gauteng health department and Network Healthcare Holdings (Netcare) said on Monday night.
Share prices surged around the world yesterday as financial markets celebrated the arrival of American armour in central Baghdad and anticipated the imminent collapse of Iraqi resistance to US and British troops after less than three weeks of fighting.
De Beers’ Diamond Trading Company (DTC) executives said on Monday that sales of diamond jewellery over 2002 were four million up on 2001 and the value of retail sales had increased by three percent in US dollar terms, the same on average in other currencies.
Tony Blair last night appealed to George Bush to combine America’s quest for its own security with the wider needs of international justice when the two leaders of the Iraqi war coalition met on British soil to review their military and diplomatic strategy.
At least 29 foreign tourists have vanished in the Sahara in little more than six weeks, the German police say. The disappearance of a first group went unreported for several weeks, and since then the total has been growing at irregular intervals as one party after another has gone missing in the sparsely populated south of Algeria.
The big guns over Basra have at last fallen silent. For almost three weeks now every night has been punctuated by the deafening crack of British shells over the city. But on Sunday night not a single volley was fired.
A total of 4,7 million people have died as a direct result of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) civil war in the past four and a half years, according to a report released today by the International Rescue Committee, a leading aid agency.
The new Immigration Act, along with regulations which were declared invalid and unconstitutional by the Cape High Court last month, came into force at 6pm on Monday.
Nigeria will this week begin its first elections since its return to civilian rule, but, barring some kind of last minute political upheaval, its next president will be a former general.
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday there were several issues regarding the government’s proposed amnesty for those having taken funds offshore illegally that needed to be clarified and re-examined, including those of trusts and the role of advisors, as well as that of domestic taxes.