The draft National Environmental Management Biodiversity Bill will go to Cabinet within the next fortnight, the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism said on Tuesday.
A group of Masai women are to bring a civil case against the British army for alleged rapes, which took place close to army training grounds in Samburu, northern Kenya, over a 25-year period.
The most unpopular man in China made his last speech yesterday before he finally steps off the stage nearly 14 years after he ordered the army to suppress the students in Tiananmen Square.
Defence lawyers in the treason trial of Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai finished on Monday their cross-examination of the key state witness, who told the court the trial had wrecked his marriage.
The department of communications will study the market over the next year to test the feasibility of introducing a fourth cellular operator for South Africa.
The rand was steady against major currencies just before noon on Tuesday in very quiet trade. Currency traders said that there was no interest in the market and saw the rand trading in a similar range to Monday for the rest of the day.
Ownership of all .22 rifles currently used for target shooting at about 266 public schools are to be transferred from the defence department to the education department in terms of an agreement reached between them.
India’s competitive advantage of being able to provide cheap labour to the software industry will come under serious threat in two years as its currency appreciates and salary costs rise, a top industry official warned on Tuesday.
The South African Government on Wednesday expressed the need to treat any suggestion of loss of jobs at Telkom (TKG) — which listed on the Johannesburg and New York stock exchanges this week — with caution.
The Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) has successfully recovered ,9-million paid to a company in terms of an ”irregular” contract for the sale of the SFF’s strategic stock, Minerals and Energy Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Monday.