Shareholder groups warned mining group BHP Billiton last night against making a huge payoff to outgoing chief executive Brian Gilbertson.
President George Bush will be forced today to defend a massive regeneration package designed to kick-start the US economy which has come under withering attack as a sop to the rich.
Rebels in the Ivory Coast clashed with French forces yesterday around the western town of Duekoue, but the French foreign ministry said the fighting should not endanger peace talks planned in Paris later this month.
Unelected governors will be installed to run two cities in Zimbabwe where anti-government protests have intensified in the past week, the government said yesterday.
South African police and legal experts have reassured citizens that under certain circumstances they have the right to kill criminals, following an outcry over the arrest of a couple who repeatedly stabbed a man who broke into their caravan.
Justice Minister Penuell Maduna is to ask Parliament to affect changes to draft defection legislation in line with an agreement reached between the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC).
Malawi’s finance minister is expected to come under investigation for his involvement in the controversial sale of the country’s strategic maize reserves just months before widespread crop failure.
The Inkatha Freedom Party has called its national council together tomorrow evening in Durban to discuss the issue of dissolving the KwaZulu Natal legislature in order to force an election in the province.
Startling new claims about South Africa’s apartheid-era intelligence activities are made in a book by former National Intelligence Service (NIS) agent Riaan Labuschagne. The book, On South Africa’s Secret Service, was released in December.
Food riots in two towns in Zimbabwe could be the start of a
showdown between President Robert Mugabe’s government and a restive population facing shortages of most basic goods, commentators warned on Monday.