South African President Thabo Mbeki slammed 19th century Europeans as ”barbarians” on Friday at the long-delayed funeral of Sarah Baartman, the so-called Hottentot Venus, who was paraded naked as a sexual freak in Britain and France in the 1800s.
Scores of people were injured and property destroyed on Friday when hundreds of Kenyans stormed a refugee camp in northeast Kenya to protest at job discrimination.
South African shares are seen recovering on Thursday as investors pick up bargains after shares were beaten in Wednesday’s global sell off on an accounting scandal at phone company WorldCom Inc, dealers said.
The US and the UN ignored warnings from a secret Taliban emissary weeks before September 11 last year that Osama bin Laden was planning a huge attack on America.
South Africa’s public broadcaster reported on Tuesday leaked conclusions from the official inquiry into the rand’s historic plunge last year, but the government said that the report was incomplete.
Air pollution in Hong Kong reached dangerous levels on Friday prompting a warning to people with heart and lung problems to stay off the streets.
Apartheid victims will launch lawsuits demanding billions of dollars of compensation from US computer giant IBM and three German banks accused of profiteering in white-ruled South Africa.
The South Africa government announced the launch a public education campaign for phone utility Telkom’s listing in October, signalling its intention to proceed with the initial public offering by next March.
African Rainbow Mineral Gold (ARMgold) boss, Patrice Motsepe, was chosen as South Africa’s Best Entrepreneur for the year at a banquet in Johannesburg, banking group Absa said on Thursday night.
The South African arm of drugs giant Boehringer Ingelheim said on Tuesday it had granted a licence to a South African pharmaceutical firm to allow it to produce, distribute and sell the antiretroviral drug nevirapine.