For a man charged with leading a government of more than 10 discordant parties and several former ministers with questionable pasts, Kenya’s president-elect, Mwai Kibaki, made a feeble impression this week.
South Africa’s residential property market is expected to remain buoyant in 2003 after experiencing strong gains in 2002, boosted by the strengthening of the rand, expected income tax relief in February’s national budget, and most importantly, forecast declines in local interest rates.
South African Airways (SAA) has unveiled a $200-million contract with Rolls-Royce plc for maintenance of the Trent 556 engines on the airline’s new fleet of nine Airbus A340-600s.
Justice Malala, <i>Sunday Times'</i> New York correspondent, has been appointed the first editor of <i>ThisDay</i>, which is to be launched shortly as South Africa’s new international daily newspaper.
Startling new claims about South Africa’s apartheid-era intelligence activities are made in a book by former National Intelligence Service (NIS) agent Riaan Labuschagne. The book, On South Africa’s Secret Service, was released in December.
The IFP and the TRC are gearing up for a legal showdown in the Cape High Court over the TRC’s finding that the IFP and its leader, Minister of Home Affairs Mangosuthu Buthelezi, were responsible for gross human rights violations during the apartheid period.
Two rebel groups in Ivory Coast on Monday boosted hopes for an end to 16 weeks of war dividing the west African country, saying they were ready to attend peace talks in Paris.
Israel’s cabinet today announced it would bar Palestinian officials from attending a meeting to discuss progress to an independent state in response to dual suicide attacks in Tel Aviv last night.
British American Tobacco deliberately sought to undermine health experts’ work on tobacco control in Southern Africa in the early 1990s.
An Australian tourist has been stabbed to death in Zimbabwe’s prime tourist destination, the Victoria Falls, state radio reported on Sunday.