Economic growth in Africa slowed to 2,8% in 2002 against 3,5% the year before, due to continent-wide and international issues, the head of the African Development Bank said on Thursday.
African National Congress (ANC) MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela will seek an urgent interdict in the Cape High Court to stop National Assembly Speaker Dr Frene Ginwala from publicly reprimanding her, her lawyer said on Thursday.
Iraq said today that yesterday’s raids on Baghdad, including an apparent stray missile strike on a crowded market, had killed 36 Iraqi civilians.
South Africa’s rural municipalities are losing the battle to provide basic services, says a report released by the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) on Thursday.
The Civil Aviation Authority said on Thursday it has accepted the resignation of its senior communications manager Trevor Davids, who has been implicated in allegations of wrongdoing.
Flamboyant Western Cape politician Peter Marais says he is to quit the New National Party and start up his own party. He is to formally announce the move at a media briefing in Cape Town on Thursday afternoon.
It was a simple ceremony in a remote corner of the Kalahari desert, but a landmark event for the rights of indigenous people worldwide.
This war business gets no easier to understand… especially while trying to decipher what George ‘A Metaphor For Every Occasion’ Bush is actually saying…
US forces advancing towards Baghdad were today held up by fierce fighting in the city of Samawah, against 1 500 Iraqi paramilitaries guarding a bridge across the Euphrates river.
British artillery and jets launched a fierce attack last night on a convoy of up to 120 Iraqi tanks and armoured personnel carriers seen pouring out of the city of Basra towards the Faw peninsula at the southern tip of the country.