African Game Services owner Riccardo Ghiazza and a student animal handler were found guilty in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday of ill-treating a group of 30 elephants brought to a farm near Brits from Tuli in Botswana in 1998.
Five southern African airlines have expressed interest in taking part in the privatisation of Air Botswana, a government official said on Monday.
Africa, particularly the Sub-Saharan region, would experience brighter economic conditions in 2003, provided the war in Iraq ended quickly, the World Bank’s Global Development Finance report shows.
US troops holding positions in the western half of Baghdad today began an assault on Iraqi units guarding a crossing to the east, and in the process fired a tank shell at a hotel housing the foreign media.
About 40 million Africans face possible starvation this year unless the international community comes up with one billion dollars’ worth of aid, says the World Food Programme (WFP).
United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader Bantu Holomisa on Monday asked Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana to investigate the ”questions and allegations” around Gijima Info Technologies Africa.
The new Immigration Act, along with regulations which were declared invalid and unconstitutional by the Cape High Court last month, came into force at 6pm on Monday.
Plans to send over R85-million worth of South African grain to Zimbabwe are well underway and the first maize delivery is expected to be ready for distribution by the end of the week.
A possible case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) — which has killed more than 100 people worldwide — has been identified in Pretoria, the Gauteng health department and Network Healthcare Holdings (Netcare) said on Monday night.
Share prices surged around the world yesterday as financial markets celebrated the arrival of American armour in central Baghdad and anticipated the imminent collapse of Iraqi resistance to US and British troops after less than three weeks of fighting.