The Inkatha Freedom Party has decided to invest in Hypo-Plus, a controversial product that claims to be effective in the treatment of HIV/Aids. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> revealed last week that the ANC’s Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans’ Association was linked to a company involved in marketing Hypo-Plus.
A moratorium on the registration of new children’s homes in Gauteng has forced the Johannesburg Child Welfare Society (JCWS) to come up with innovative ways to help children in need of support.
Black navy officers are incensed by the arms deal-related posting to Germany of a white warrant officer recently convicted for unseemly behaviour. Warrant Officer Paul Psaradelis flew to Germany to join the navy crew doing the groundwork for fetching three submarines and four corvettes.
The IMF is to draw up urgent proposals for a bankruptcy system that will provide crisis-hit countries such as Argentina with the protection. The IMF has been given six months to come up with a blueprint that will provide a mechanism for coping with debt defaults.
South African gold stocks lost ground at the start on Tuesday after bullion slipped overnight but other miners like Anglo American drew strength from a soft rand and helped to lift the overall bourse.
The cream of South Africa’s women rugby players will face each other on Friday October 11 at Loftus Versveld in a curtain-raiser match to the Bankfin Currie Cup tussle between the Blue Bulls and
Falcons.
The inflation outlook for next year has improved significantly, SA Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday.
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The drama of getting her former husband to court to set maintenance for their children was the first in a series of events that left Karen defeated, cynical and a single parent in every sense of the word. Her husband avoided the maintenance court for eight months.
A little more than 60 days into the implementation of a South Africa-brokered peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the signs are good. In the agreement the Rwandan government said it would pull all its troops out of the Congo within 90 days.