Mounting trade union concerns about government food security measures boiled over this week in a broadside against the food price monitoring committee set up by Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza at the end of last year.
South Africa’s national carrier, South African Airways, is constantly looking at new routes and partners and is extending its wings to cover the African sky, says Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe.
South African domestic workers must be registered for unemployment insurance as from April 1 and BuaNews, the government news agency, has reported that this can now also be done by telephone.
Three men suffocated to death in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa trying to fetch a woman’s mobile phone from a pit toilet, press reports said on Friday.
Yet another child has fallen victim to gang violence on the Cape Flats — the third in less than a week
President George Bush has fixated on getting rid of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, one way or another, ever since he moved into the White House.
A virulent opponent to Thailand’s brutal anti-drugs crackdown which has left nearly 1 500 dead, Porntip Rojanasunan is waging a battle against the police force, seeking to snare any of those responsible for extra-judicial killings.
A state witness in the treason trial of Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai claimed on Thursday that President Robert Mugabe’s death by natural causes was an ”appropriate demise” for the head of state discussed at a key meeting.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) enjoyed a strong opening for the second straight day after being mauled on Monday and Tuesday and the last four days of last week. A weaker rand and strong close on the Dow overnight gave the bourse the impetus it needed to post further gains.
North West Premier Popo Molefe’s recently divorced wife has gone public with accusations that her former husband sexually molested a pre-teen relative.