The South African government is to transfer R170-million it donated to the UN’s World Food Programme to source food aid for southern Africa into the WFP’s bank account in South Africa by March 31.
South African Tourism has used interest in cricket to launch a 90 000 Indian rupee, 10-day ultimate luxury family holiday package targeting select upper income groups in India.
South African mine holding company Gencor and asbestos mining claimants could reach a settlement agreement by week end or at the latest the end of March, said Richard Spoor, a lawyer from legal firm Ntuli, Noble & Spoor, representing the claimants.
The initial public offering in South African telecommunications company Telkom raised R3,9-billion rand, but in US dollar terms this was less than $500-million, of which only half is expected to come from offshore.
A South African woman has been charged with murder after tracking down and stabbing to death a man she accused of raping her, prompting renewed calls to legalise vigilante action.
Two of the five people who died when their residential hotel caught fire around 1am on Wednesday, leapt to their deaths, Johannesburg emergency services representative Malcolm Midgley said.
The UN weapons chief, Hans Blix, is likely to deliver a critical report to the security council on Iraq’s cooperation with the inspectors, noting that Saddam Hussein has routinely exploited looming deadlines to deliver last-minute results, a senior UN official said yesterday
A bomb ripped through a crowded airport in the Philippines yesterday, killing 19 and injuring about 150 in an attack branded by the Philippine president ”a brazen act of terrorism which will not go unpunished”.
President George Bush gave notice yesterday that the US will resort to military force against North Korea if diplomacy fails to stop it building a substantial nuclear arsenal.
Recent efforts to eliminate an alien invader between Pietermaritzburg and Durban have left residents and environmentalists in a froth. The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Water and Forestry Affairs has sprayed a broad-spectrum glysophate herbicide on Hammarsdale dam