SA’s private sector land freight volumes rose by 8% year-on-year in September to 45,754 million metric tons, while the volume of goods transported by state-owned Transnet declined by 1% y/y to 14,686-million metric tons.
The media fest over the relationship between the Democratic Alliance’s Western Cape leader, Gerald Morkel, and millionaire fugitive from German justice Jurgen Harksen partly reflects the life and death battle between the DA and the New National Party in the Western Cape.
ANGLICAN church officials in Nigeria said on Sunday they plan to inspect wedding dresses ahead of the big day, saying too many women were going down the aisle "half-naked."
Washington’s pointman on Africa is to meet Nigerian leaders on Thursday, making a high-level visit at a time when African oil is more than ever in the thoughts of US strategic planners.
THE Shell oil company said on Sunday that invaders were wreaking havoc at its natural gas plant in Utorogu in Nigeria’s southern Delta State.
The Justice Department on Sunday released the names of the 33 prisoners who received presidential pardons last week.
A TRAGIC new twist was added to the Middle East conflict when three 14-year-old Palestinian classmates were buried in Gaza this week after mounting a futile attack that ended with them being shot by Israeli soldiers
South Africa has asked delegations from the 189 UN member states expected at next month’s Earth Summit in Johannesburg to arrive two days early to hammer out a deal on sustainable development.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) is expected to open flat to slightly weaker on Monday, taking its cue from the currency. Traders said that with no major economic data due out this week, the market is likely to look to the rand for direction.
Nearly 150 people have been killed and nearly 175 000 forced to flee their homes in eastern Africa because of torrential downpours in the region.