The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa drifted into the red on Wednesday morning in lethargic trade.
The South African rand was slightly firmer just before noon on Tuesday after the release of better-than-expected PPI data. Traders said that an upgrade of South Africa’s foreign currency rating by international credit ratings agency Moody’s had also improved sentiment in the forex market.
Hutu rebels attacked a military checkpoint near a primary school in eastern Burundi, killing two pupils, a teacher and four government soldiers, government and rebel officials said on Wednesday.
Senior Inkatha Freedom Party MP Theresa Millin has defected from her party to form a new party — understood to be the African Independent Party.
The Reserve Bank has rejected a bid under the Promotion of Access to Information Act to have the report on the failure of the Saambou banking group last year made public.
The African National Congress has accused the Treatment Action Campaign of ”bully boy tactics” after its disruption of a speech by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
PC users were warned on Wednesday to be careful responding to online polls asking them to vote for or against the US-led war on Iraq that could be a hook to launch a new virus.
Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has called on the international community to reassert the United Nations role as the world’s only legal and legitimate authority for world peace and security.
Between 5 000 and 6 000 people flocked to the Kegue Stadium in the Togolese capital, Lome, on 6 March, hoping to be selected for treatment by the doctors of the Anastasis, the "mercy ship" that arrived at Lome port on 28 February.
British forces began a full-scale artillery assault on Basra, Iraq’s second largest city, yesterday amid dramatic reports that a popular revolt to unseat Saddam Hussein’s loyalists had begun.