Telkom expected to pay a fine of between R8-million and R12-million for failing to meet government targets for new telephone lines.
The board of the United States’ second-largest school district has voted unanimously to extend the ban on carbonated soft drinks to all its schools in an effort to combat childhood obesity.
On Monday Mandela will return to his final place of captivity to mark the conversion into a museum of a jail.
An explosion and fire engulfed a French oil tanker on Sunday off the coast of Yemen. Yemeni officials described the blaze as an accident caused by an oil leak, but the ship’s owner said it was a ”deliberate act”.
The brother of Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa was found dead in an Arcadia hotel in Pretoria on Saturday morning, police said. Mwanawasa, who arrived in the country on Thursday, was in South Africa on private business.
The Israeli army began calling up reservists under emergency procedures on Sunday as it continued its partial occupation of the West Bank, a military source told public radio.
The largest single-crystal diamond ever offered on the world market failed to find a buyer, with its French auctioneers blaming volatile global markets.
Republicans took control of the US Congress — a stunning triumph for President George Bush — on Wednesday after securing a key Senate race in Missouri, according to media projections.
The rains have come to the undulating pastures of northern Matabeleland. In the bread basket of Zimbabwe, the seed should be in the ground by now. But instead the rural poor are bracing themselves for a catastrophe on a scale not seen since the Matabeleland massacres a generation ago.
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Negotiations on the Johannesburg World Summit plan of action are complete and the document was on Tuesday afternoon being ”gavelled” by the so-called Vienna Group.
Summit negotiators wrap up action plan