The battle for Baghdad appeared to be under way today as US troops reportedly took control of Saddam International airport, a key target just 10 miles from the city centre.
The draft Liquor Bill leaves the position of supermarket retailing of liquor
products unclear, and could allow hard tack and beer to be sold in competition with other outlets — like bottle stores.
In a week of high defection drama, the African National Congress has emerged the clear winner, while the Democratic Alliance won the race among opposition parties.
British defence giant BAE Systems is backing human trials in South Africa of a Russian-designed radiation machine touted as a radical new treatment for HIV/Aids.
Did police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi give a private group permission to offer military services to war-racked Sudan, condoning a breach of South African law?
Following warnings by his department that South Africa faces a serious scientific skills shortage, Science and Technology Minister Dr Ben Ngubane on Friday said the country faced ”considerable challenges” in this regard.
Review: The new rulers of the world: John Pilger (Verso); Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalisation Debate: Naomi Klein (Flamingo); The Globalisation Myth: Alan Shipman (Icon Books) Anthony Egan
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Thousands of South Africans are staging round-the-clock vigils to protest against the war in Iraq. The activists, under the banner of the independent Anti-War Coalition and the Stop the War Campaign, are ideologically divergent but are united in their opposition to the United States-led campaign.
The government has thrown a veil of secrecy around the task team appointed to calculate the costs of universal anti-retroviral treatment. The team will report back to the Cabinet at the end of April.