Eastern Cape premier says proposals for tertiary education fail to tackle historical imbalances. Eastern Cape Premier Makhenkesi Stofile has called on Minister of Education Kader Asmal to <i>hamba kahle</i> — Zulu for "tread carefully".
In one fell swoop German tax-fraud fugitive Jurgen Harksen implicated Western Cape Democratic Alliance leaders in a web of financial favours, illegal foreign currency contraventions and a high life of whisky, wine and good food.
South Africans hoping for an immigration Bill to ease the recruitment of skilled foreign labour have suffered yet another setback with the passing of a law that parliamentarians themselves say is defective.
Political intervention helped force the settlement this week of a protracted dispute between two well-connected empowerment groups over the ownership of MTN (later M-Cell) shares valued at about R120-million.
The government’s crackdown on the media shows no signs of abating. Journalism was never the safest line of work in Zimbabwe, but since President Robert Mugabe enacted a new media law just days after his messy re-election, the job hazards are growing.
The United Nations Security Council last week finally agreed to an overhaul of sanctions that were imposed against Iraq 11 years ago at the end of the Gulf War, replacing a blanket ban on a whole range of goods with "smart" sanctions.
A wrangle has erupted between De Beers and the workers in Koffiefontein mine in the Free State over the company’s decision to award lucrative shares to nominated employees only when it was delisted in June last year.
Botswana has one of the most progressive and successful land policies in Southern Africa. Part of the reason for this is that upon independence Botswana did not inherit the same kinds of problems that South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia did.
How Colombia’s ancient U’wa tribe sent a US oil giant packing. When geologists from the United States oil giant, Oxy, found what they believed was one of the largest oilfields in Latin America in 1994, there was jubilation in the company’s Los Angeles headquarters.
The translocation of young elephant bulls has taught scientists the value of the animals’ social structure. In 1994 rhinos were being found dead in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve with their horns ripped out, their backs broken and their bodies mutilated.