Shareholders of media group Naspers (NPN) have approved the group’s proposed buy-out of the minorities of MIH Holdings (MIHH) and MIH Limited (MIHL).
Oil prices dropped 2.7 percent on Monday after Iraq announced it would resume crude exports from May 8, ending a month-long ban on sales to protest against Israeli incursions into Palestinian territory.
South African white maize on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa rocketed on Friday on the back of the continued lack of widespread rain in the country’s maize belt, at a time when farmers are trying to sow maize.
Australia became the second country yesterday to say that it has received intelligence that the popular Thai resort of Phuket is a potential terrorist target.
Respected scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have warned that the US is developing a new generation of weapons that undermine and possibly violate international treaties on biological and chemical warfare.
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) holds its first national conference in five years at Stellenbosch University next week — with elections likely to indicate whether the left or "right-wing" of the movement holds sway.
Less than four months before the World Summit on Sustainable Development begins in Johannesburg, there is no sign that the split in the civil society process is being mended.
A Libyan court has repeated charges that six Bulgarian medical staff and a Palestinian provoked an Aids epidemic through tainted blood products.
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila said on Wednesday that Rwandan-backed rebels could still join a power-sharing deal aimed at ending the war in his country.
An innovative scheme to convert 500 000 traditional injera stoves across Eritrea will cut thousands of tons of carbon emissions each year.