US election observers warned Nigeria that next week’s presidential elections could be undermined if the shortcomings of this weekend’s parliamentary poll are repeated.
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali agreed on Monday to give back two seats in his provincial cabinet to the African National Congress in a bid to end the latest row between the ANC and Mtshali’s Inkatha Freedom Party.
The ever-optimistic front-man for the Iraqi regime during the war to topple Saddam Hussein — Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf –may have vanished but he has resurfaced on the Internet with a website containing his finest pearls of wisdom.
President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday he could not express himself as African Union president on the situation in Zimbabwe because the AU had not taken a position on that yet.
Sales of some of South Africa’s best wines at the 29th Nederburg Auction, which ended on Saturday, reached a new record of R7,5-million, with prices rising 7% on those of 2002.
The monthly poll on the South African stock market outlook conducted by Plexus Research & Surveys among unit trust managers was slightly more positive at the end of March 2003 than for the previous month.
Scientists who three years ago said they had virtually completed a map of the human genetic code now report progress in understanding the last few pieces of one of the world’s most complex puzzles.
From a field just outside the town, the final battle for the last stronghold of Saddam Hussein’s empire could be seen unfolding.
Doctors in Iraq’s second biggest city, Basra, yesterday warned of an epidemic as a majority of the 1,3-million residents were still without safe drinking water three weeks after the war began.
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, gave his strongest indication yesterday that he expected to see a Palestinian state and was willing to evacuate controversial settlements to achieve peace.