It appears that South African mobile phone group Vodacom won’t be able to begin operating in Mozambique on April 1 as planned.
The chief whip of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has admitted that the involvement of Members of Parliament — including Winnie Madikizela-Mandela — in cases of alleged fraud and corruption is embarrassing.
The SA Police Service emphatically denied on Tuesday that Zimbabwean intelligence officers were in South Africa to arrest cricketer Henry Olonga.
Central African Republic coup leader Francois Bozize on Monday called for more African peacekeepers to be deployed alongside French forces in the country.
After numerous delays, including a nose-bleed and having the charges translated from Afrikaans to English to Ndebele, the NNP’s disciplinary hearing against Peter Marais and Peter Malatsi commenced at about 8pm on Monday.
South African Casino operators have banded together to form a new voluntary association named The Casino Association of South Africa.
With war in the Gulf almost inevitable, local economists are divided, agreeing only that the currency’s direction in the likely event of a war is difficult to call.
The UN’s nuclear watchdog demanded greater access to Iran’s nuclear programme yesterday, amid growing anxiety in the west that Tehran is much closer to building a nuclear bomb than previously feared.
US Major General Thomas Rhame is not impressed by Saddam’s much-vaunted elite troops, the Republican Guard. ”They are simply terrible,” he said. ”They did not perform worth a crap.”
Ariel Sharon has told his cabinet that he plans to extend the ”security fence” Israeli is building along the length of the West Bank so that it entirely encircles any Palestinian state.