Three people were killed by the Israeli army on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon went on the counter-offensive against stinging corruption allegations which have damaged his standing just three weeks ahead of general elections.
Israel asks SA to probe Sharon loan
In a corner of Maseru’s shabby industrial zone, workers at the Shining Century factory cut and sew bolts of billowing maroon and navy blue fabric into T-shirts destined for the shelves of Gap stores across the United States.
Residents of the remote Kalahari desert town of Groot Mier in the Northern Cape are being plagued by scores of scorpions on the crawl.
South Africa’s 2003 wine grape harvest is estimated at 1,183-million tons, a 9,7% increase over last year’s harvest and 9 700 tons more than the exceptionally large harvest of 1999.
Swaziland’s largest, if illegal, opposition political party — the People’s United Democratic Movement — published its manifesto on Wednesday.
Fraud-related cases in the Eastern Cape could soon be dealt with speedily after the Scorpions announced the establishment of a special corruption court in King William’s Town.
The human race has only one or perhaps two generations to rescue itself, according to the 2003 State of the World report by the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute.
South Africa and Zimbabwe share a common destiny and the challenges facing Africa and the region can only be met through cooperation across national boundaries, the Minister of Labour, Membathisi Mdladlana, said in Harare Wednesday.
Hugo Chavez will come under further pressure to resign as the president of Venezuela today when bank workers join the paralysing strike which has already lasted more than six weeks.
President George Bush, hijacked by hardliners in his administration, is setting the world on a course towards nuclear disaster, a founder of the nuclear deterrence policy said.