A Cape High Court judge on Monday extended the suspension of the new Immigration Act and its regulations, which were supposed to have come into force last Wednesday, to April 7.
The SA Police Service has challenged the trade union Solidarity to substantiate its claim that 40% f the force were threatening to resign over a massive restructuring programme currently underway.
The South African rand was off the day’s best levels just before noon on Monday , but remained firmer than it was on Friday.
Oil giant Shell said on Sunday it was evacuating some non-essential staff from Nigeria’s volatile Niger Delta, where five people were killed in clashes between troops and ethnic militants.
Ongoing gang-related violence on the Cape Flats seems to have stabilised after the deployment of hundreds of police last week in the affected areas, the Western Cape police commissioner said on Sunday.
Rebels seized the capital of the Central African Republic at the weekend in a lightning attack which forced the government to flee to neighbouring Cameroon, further destabilising the already volatile region.
An Israeli army bulldozer crushed an American peace activist to death in the Gaza Strip yesterday in what witnesses described as a deliberate killing.
George Bush and Tony Blair last night gave the United Nations a 24-hour ultimatum to enforce its own demands for immediate Iraqi disarmament, or face an American- and British-led coalition that will go to war within days.
Zimbabwe’s suspension from the councils of the Commonwealth is to remain in place until December, Commonwealth secretary-general Don McKinnon said in London on Sunday.