Fifteen years after kicking a two-packets-a-day habit to improve his presidential hopes, Jacques Chirac yesterday launched a ”war on tobacco”.
Home affairs minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Tuesday for the first time lifted the lid on allegations of irregular expenditure, totalling millions of rands, in a written reply to the portfolio committee on home affairs.
A Serbian ultra-nationalist and former ally of Slobodan Milosevic today pleaded not guilty to ethnic cleansing during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.
The New York stock exchange has banned al-Jazeera from its trading floor, prompting accusations that it was retaliating against the Arabic-language TV network’s stance on the war in Iraq.
US-led ground forces were today continuing their advance on Baghdad, as US television networks reported that Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guards are preparing to unleash chemical weapons on US and British troops entering the city.
Aids activists shouted down health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on Tuesday when she tried to address a public health conference in Cape Town.
South African Finance minister Trevor Manuel has become the first finance minister to address the International Labour Organisation in its 85-year history.
The strike at South African platinum miner Impala Platinum on Tuesday continued for the eighth consecutive working day at the company’s Impala Lease Area in North West Province.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was under pressure in noon trade on Tuesday as the wrecking balls of weak world markets and a strong rand knocked the local bourse.
The United States has not formally asked the South African government to close down the Iraqi embassy or to expel Baghdad’s diplomats, a foreign ministry official said on Monday.