The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa raced ahead at the opening on Tuesday, fuelled by a weaker rand and strong rebound on the Dow overnight.
South African Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana has congratulated the country’s ambassador Juan Somavia on his re-election as Director General the International Labour Organisation (ILO), heralding it as a "victory for the developing world".
It’s drive time with WABC’s rightwing talkshow host, Curtis Sliwa, and Bill is on the line from the Poconos in Pennsylvania with a tale so funny he can hardly share it for giggling.
When former Unita soldier Pedro da Silva disembarked from an army truck at Kituma, he thought it was going to be an overnight stop. That was in January and he is still there.
Pleasant consumer inflation surprises might be in the offing in view of the latest production price index (PPI) figures, Absa economist John Loos said on Wednesday.
South Africa has approached the government of Zimbabwe regarding the right to peaceful demonstrations in that country, according to President Thabo Mbeki.
Kenya handed over a suspected member of the al-Qaeda terror network to US officials on Wednesday and identified him as Suleiman Abdalla Salim Hemed.
An uneasy calm descended on the Niger Delta on Wednesday after almost two weeks of violent unrest crippled the region’s oil industry, local leaders, residents and security forces said.
The United States has asked South Africa to close down the Iraqi mission in the country and expel Baghdad’s diplomats in Pretoria, SABC television news reported on Wednesday.
Four days after Angola vanished from the US-led ”coalition of the willing” supporting war against Iraq, the African country has reappeared on the White House list of nations publicly supporting the effort.