The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has failed to keep full and proper accounting records since April 1994, while public works could not provide proof of ownership of state properties which incurred operating costs of R169,4-million, the auditor general’s report for the 2001/02 financial year reveals.
Residents of two populous suburbs of the Zimbabwe capital Harare voted for a second day on Sunday in key by-elections, amid opposition claims that the polls were not free and fair.
All the mammals of Madagascar are descended from four ancestral species that must have sailed there clinging to rafts of plant material, scientists believe.
Big business was ”broadly satisfied” with the government’s fiscal and monetary policies, as well as its macro-economic policy and micro-economic programmes.
African National Congress MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela will seek an urgent interdict on Tuesday to stop National Assembly Speaker Dr Frene Ginwala’s public reprimand.
Coal seam fires that can burn underground for centuries pose a major threat to the environment and human health, experts say. Once under way they can be impossible to put out, raging for decades or even centuries.
Picky eaters run the risk of contracting cancerous diseases because of their aversion to vegetables, a study reveals. The study, by scientists in the United States, found a link between what is eaten, the ability to taste bitterness, and the risk of killer diseases.
Almost all of the miners that embarked on a nine-day work stoppage at world number two platinum miner Impala Platinum have returned to work on the Sunday night shift.
President Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered the immediate arrest of ethnic militants who unleashed two weeks of violence in Nigeria’s volatile Niger Delta that caused scores of deaths and halted oil operations.
Where Ashraf Sadak’s house had once stood there was yesterday merely a large crater.