Although the economic outlook for South Africa is decisively more bullish in 2003 than developed economies, potential curveballs could manifest and adversely affect the economy.
A witness in the fraud and theft trial of African National Congress Women’s League president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela testified on Monday she was made to sign a blank loan application which was fraudulently completed later.
Twenty-six opposition supporters were arrested on Sunday as they drove past President Robert Mugabe’s residence in the capital, police and opposition party officials said on Monday.
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali on Monday scotched rumours that he would again reshuffle his Cabinet and dissolve his party’s co-operation pact with the African National Congress in the province.
Sixty-eight young Iranian men and women have been rounded up by an Islamic militia and accused of using the Internet to arrange illicit sexual encounters, the official IRNA news agency said on Sunday.
Fueling fears of a comeback of domestic terrorism, a passenger on a train to Florence on Sunday fatally shot a policeman in the head and wounded another when the officers checked the identity papers for himself and a companion.
The police have stepped up patrols in Ficksburg in the eastern Free State after the murder in the area on Friday of a Chinese businessman, a policeman said on Monday. The man is the fourth businessmen to have been killed in the town recently.
On the eve of the listing of South African telecommunications utility Telkom on the Johannesburg and New York Stock Exchanges, the government has cut the price range for the Telkom initial public offering to between R27 and R30 a share.
South Africa is set for a record sugar crop of 2,755-million tons, up 177 tons from the previous estimate of 2,754-million tons, according to the latest estimate by the South African Sugar Association released on Monday.
Guinea-Bissau’s most influential private radio station was closed by the government last Thursday. Radio Bombolom, which the Bissau-Guinean government believes is sympathetic to the opposition, had been directed to stop broadcasting two weeks ago.