As the Burundian peace summit entered its third day in Tanzania this week, one of the warring rebel factions claimed to have captured 72 government troops in two months of fighting.
The United States Federal Reserve Board (the Fed) on Tuesday signalled that it was standing ready to reduce borrowing costs to counteract the threat of a return to recession in the world’s largest economy.
The highest posts in Namibia’s ruling party are up for grabs. But President Sam Nujoma says his comrades need not compete for the jobs.
Exhibit ”MM”, tabled this week at the Desai inquiry into the Western Cape political funding scandal, has further underlined the murky dealings between German tax fugitive Jurgen Harksen and the Democratic Alliance. The cheque counterfoil shows R500 000 in favour of the DA.
Springbok rugby coach Rudolph Straeuli singled out Brent Russell for particular praise after the diminutive flyhalf played a pivotal role in spurring the Springboks to a heart-stopping 33-31 win over Australia.
Nearly 1 500 people wore nothing but their birthday suits on Sunday at two Helsinki landmarks, as the Finnish capital played host to a US photographer and his project to bare all in the name of art.
On an ordinary day in February 2000 I attended a council meeting at Unisa wearing a pale green skirt and tunic top. The hem ended just above my knees and my summer-brown legs were bare down to bottle-green high-heeled leather pumps.
President Thabo Mbeki’s plan to bring lasting peace to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo within 90 days faces serious problems of implementation and operational capacity among peacekeeping agencies, analysts said this week.
Female university academics still face a formidable glass ceiling, according to data the Mail & Guardian has collected over the past month.
Former CEO of the Civil Society Indaba Jacqui Brown’s reinstatement yesterday after being found not guilty of serious financial misconduct by the Commission for Concilliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), will not jeopardise plans for the World Summit, which begins in a few days.