Pan Africanist Congress MP Patricia de Lille said on Monday she has neither the funds nor the human resource capacity to start a new political party in South Africa.
Arab economies stand to suffer around -billion in direct losses during the remainder of the current year if the United States wages war on Iraq, a leading Saudi economist said on Monday.
Like the National Party (NP) under apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) was trying to take control of the courts through judicial appointments, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon said on Tuesday.
Legislation has been tabled in the South African Parliament which gives the Safety and Security Minister the power to declare an organisation to be a terrorist group by notice in the government gazette.
The Western Cape’s three main political parties will be fighting it out in a key by-election in the leafy Swellendam on March 19 — the same day the country could be experiencing the defection shock wave at national and provincial level.
Newly appointed Commerce Minister Dipak Patel and three other deputy ministers from the opposition have been expelled from their parties for accepting ministerial posts in defiance of the party line, officials said on Monday.
South Africa’s tourism boom is official: Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Mohammed Valli Moosa said the country attracted over 6,4-million tourists last year.
Watching violence on television can encourage a child to act more aggressively even 15 years later, according to one of the few TV violence studies to follow children into adulthood.
Twenty-seven members of the main opposition party in Zimbabwe were arrested in Harare over the weekend, as political tensions run high in the capital ahead of two key by-elections, the state-run Herald newspaper said on Monday.
South Africa needed to market itself and its successes more effectively to attract foreign investment, according to President Thabo Mbeki’s International Investment Council.