Certain small, seemingly insignificant financial rehabilitation companies are bringing the micro-lending industry to its knees.
In his piece about labour’s role in the government’s decision not to privatise large portions of Spoornet ("A hollow victory?", May 31), Reg Rumney displays a puzzling ignorance of the details of the agreement reached. Puzzling, because, as with other serious economic journalists, Rumney was fully briefed at the time of the announcement in February.
A blueprint for peace in Sudan could pave the way for increased investment from Western oil firms, now wrestling with security problems and charges they are helping Khartoum’s war effort.
President Marc Ravalomanana of Madagascar, riding high on recent territorial gains and the absence of his arch rival, on Sunday dissolved his government, paving the way for an end to the worst crisis in the Indian Ocean island’s history.
At least 35 fighters of the Congolese Rally for Democracy/Liberation Movement (RCD-ML) died on Wednesday in clashes in the eastern DRC town on Bunia
America’s most controversial writer Gore Vidal has launched the most scathing attack to date on George Bush’s Presidency, calling for an investigation into the events of 9/11 to discover whether the Bush administration deliberately chose not to act on warnings of al-Qaida’s plans.
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The Social Movements Indaba was gearing up on Wednesday for a mass rally against the World Summit on Sustainable Development at the Alexandra Stadium.<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?a=11&o=7974">Water and energy on the Summit agenda</a><br>
Malawi’s oldest newspaper house, Blantyre Newspapers Limited, (BNL) has suspended its leading editor apparently for criticising government over-expenditure.
Austria has written off Mozambique’s debt of 19 million euros, Mozambique’s finance ministry announced on Tuesday.
Two young people who tried to hijack an internal Ethiopian Airlines flight were shot dead on Sunday by national security agents on board.