The elation of warring Congolese parties over a long-awaited peace agreement on Wednesday was tempered by warnings that tough times lay ahead. ”No one must imagine that this deal will implement itself,” said United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan after the signing ceremony at Sun City.
The South African government has published a bill that aims to give legislative effect to the foreign exchange amnesty announced by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel in his Budget speech on February 26.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) will on Friday meet with the South African Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors (SAFCEC) in Bedfordview to begin wage negotiations.
Controversy over rural security has deepened in South Africa with a government decision to phase out a paramilitary force that was part of the apartheid state’s security apparatus.
Online personal contact sites are booming. There are contact sites for everybody, regardless of age — for juveniles, students, working people, old people.
About 38-million Africans are threatened by starvation this year from a food crisis that relief workers predict could last for generations because of Aids.
United States forces advanced to within 30 kilometres of Baghdad last night after ”destroying” at least one division of Iraqi Republican Guard troops and crippling another, senior military commanders said.
Yesterday’s strike took out two homes of an extended family of about a dozen. Tuesday’s raid destroyed the local school, and on Monday a poor baklava seller, pitied by the entire neighbourhood, lost his wife, mother, sister, nephew, and two sons to American missiles.
British troops on the outskirts of Basra were yesterday distributing leaflets in an attempt to reassure local people that their intentions were benign.
US military officials described yesterday how special forces commandos launched a daring midnight raid to rescue a young American soldier missing in Iraq for 10 days.