The New National Party is crumbling from the top after nine senior MPs defected this week to rejoin the party’s erstwhile partner, the Democratic Alliance.
Senior members of the Pan Africanist Congress recently advised their president, Stanley Mogoba, to dump Patricia de Lille as an MP because they claimed to know of her plans to leave the party and venture out on her own.
The announcement of the appointment of Santam (SNT) CEO Johan van Zyl as the new head of Sanlam (SLM) on Friday ends months of uncertainty and speculation about the future of the financial services giant following the sudden departure of Leon Vermaak late last year
This year’s winner of the Oscar for best foreign film is the true story of a refugee family in Kenya. Stefanie Zweig recalls finding love in Africa.
<b>Review:</b> Group Portrait South Africa: Nine Family Histories: Compiled by
Paul Faber
(Kwela Books)
<b>Review:</b> Stupid White Men … And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
Michael Moore
(Penguin)
Zimbabwe will soon be hit by power shortages as the government does not have enough foreign currency to pay electricity suppliers, state television reported Thursday.
Rebels in northern Uganda have abducted a record number of children since government forces launched an offensive against rebel bases in southern Sudan a year ago, a human rights organisation said on Friday.
The top US infantry commander in Iraq has said that his troops’ overstretched supply lines, coupled with unexpectedly stiff Iraqi resistance, had stalled the advance on Baghdad and increased the possibility of a long war.
Israel protested to Tony Blair yesterday at what it called his ”worrying and outrageous” comments linking the war in Iraq to a settlement of the Palestinian conflict.