Pick ‘n Pay CEO Sean Summers said on Thursday that Pick ‘n Pay would have no alternative but to comply with the South Africa’s new legislation on plastic bags that comes into effect on 9 May that forces consumers to pay for their bags.
South Africa’s Inkatha Freedom Party parliamentary caucus on Thursday discussed the impact of the defection period on the party — and party sources indicated that the party could withdraw from national government if its control of KwaZulu Natal is snatched away.
Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF is within sight of a two-thirds majority in parliament that would enable it to make constitutional amendments. This makes the upcoming by-elections all the more important for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
President Bakili Muluzi who earlier this week named his successor fired his entire cabinet on Wednesday, according to a statement from his office.
Swiss-based luxury goods group Richemont (RCH), is coming under pressure from the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) in Hong Kong and Singapore.
When news spread across Angola last year that war had finally come to an end, Freta Capaita cajoled his four children to return to the village where they were born.
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.
South Africa has held talks with North Korea’s ambassador over his country’s withdrawal from the international treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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.
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.