BP is facing a record -million pollution fine and allegations that the oil company submitted false documentation to air quality control regulators in the United States.
France’s threat to deploy its UN veto is making war with Iraq more — not less — likely by preventing the security council from enforcing its own decisions, says British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
The fact that Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has to resort to appeals to foreign governments not to poach South African health professionals is a ”tragedy”, says the Democratic Alliance.
A game ranger leaves Johannesburg on Friday night with the hopes of becoming the first black South African to conquer the world’s highest peak Mount Everest, the environmental affairs and tourism department said in a statement.
Zimbabwean truck drivers who frequent prostitutes when they work in neighbouring Mozambique are at high risk of catching the deadly virus that causes Aids because they are ”forced” to have unprotected sex, state television reported Friday.
As the Serbian authorities were announcing yesterday that they had rounded up some 200 people in connection with the assassination of the prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, there was little sign of life at the green-roofed mansion on Silerova Street.
South African Port Operations (SAPO), the government’s new ports operational division created from the restructuring of Portnet, has budgeted in excess of R1 billion for capital spending on upgrades across all of the country’s ports in 2003, according to SAPO General Manager Nad Govender.
South Africa’s former ruling party, the New National Party, has objected to government’s raising of the earnings threshold set by the Basic Conditions of Employment Act — the point at which employees are excluded from the Act’s provisions regarding overtime payment.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has finally denied that he met Schabir Shaik and French arms dealer Alain Thetard at a Durban hotel in March 2000 — three months after the Mail & Guardian published the fact that the Scorpions were investigating whether Zuma had solicited a bribe at that meeting.
The new head of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) top negotiating body, the General Council, on Thursday warned that there was little chance of meeting a March 31 deadline on guidelines for crucial agriculture negotiations.