Without nuclear weapons North Korea would barely be noticed. It is a 10th the size of South Africa, with half the population and with the average worker earning less than in Lesotho. Widespread hunger and malnutrition persist despite the huge quantities of international food aid.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa is set to open in the black on Tuesday on the back of a weaker rand. The rand and gold are expected to be the main drivers of the market.
Test players Makhaya Ntini and Mark Boucher have been selected for the Border Bears team to play Western Province in the Standard Bank Cup semi-final clash at Buffalo Park on Friday.
Nigeria is to invite Cameroon, with whom it has had a recent border spat, to join a group of west African nations bidding to stage the 2010 World Cup, officials said on Tuesday.
In certain circles it has become old-fashioned to talk about race and class as categories through which to make sense of the behaviour of people around the world in general, and in South Africa in particular.
Israeli online publication Ha’aretz.com reports that advisers to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have conceded that Sharon received ,5-million from a South African businessman, but denied any connection to criminal activity.
Ariel Sharon’s secret SA benefactor
This is what we know for sure: Apple computer chief executive Steve Jobs will walk onto the stage of the Moscone Centre, San Francisco this Tuesday afternoon. What happens beyond that is anyone’s guess — and almost everyone is having a guess.
The British and Israeli governments were engaged in a full-scale row yesterday after Ariel Sharon banned Palestinians from attending a peace conference in London next week.
French police defended themselves on Tuesday over an incident in which they detained a television news crew from the west African state of Mali and erased part of their camera tape after being filmed manhandling two Malian illegal immigrants.
Anne Boher, a French journalist working for the Reuters news agency was briefly detained by Ivory Coast authorities and released without charge, Reuters said on Tuesday.