South Africa is the main destination for the trafficking of people for the sex trade in southern Africa, a report has found. Victims are from most countries in the region as well as from Thailand, China and eastern Europe.
Twelve wounded US soldiers were flown to Germany on Monday for treatment at a military hospital, including three seriously injured believed to be among the casualties of a weekend incident at the 101st Airborne Division’s command center in Kuwait, military officials said.
Education minister Kader Asmal said on Monday he foresaw that metropolitan city councils would ”in the fullness of time” run primary and secondary education.
The government’s women empowerment drive bore fruit on Monday when Public Works Minister Stella Sigcau paid an inspection visit to Johannesburg’s Leeuwkop Prison where a R19-million revamp project by a black woman contractor has just been completed.
South African financial services group Old Mutual Asset Managers has scooped four awards for its unit trusts’ investment performance in the annual Standard and Poor’s – Financial Mail Unit Trust rankings for 2002.
Government is set to establish the Broad- Based Black Economic Empowerment Advisory Council to advise President Thabo Mbeki on the implementation of BEE strategies to make sure that full transformation of the business sector is in accordance with economic growth,
South Africa’s hosting of the eighth Cricket World Cup (CWC) in February and March has firmly positioned South Africa as a leading global sports and tourism destination.
The South African rand was steady against the dollar, but slightly weaker against the euro and sterling just before noon on Monday in a nervous market. Currency traders said that the rand was likely to remain range bound in the short term, but saw it weakening later in the day when US markets opened.
As dark and disturbing as Roman Polanski’s films are, the real life of the 69-year-old director — who on Sunday won the Oscar for best director — is even more defined by horror, violence and sex.