The three men who will move into the international space station for the winter say they benefited from all of space shuttle Endeavour’s launch delays.
ARMGold, a South African gold miner that went public in Johannesburg in May, intends to float an offering of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) early next year, Executive Chairman Patrice Motsepe said Wednesday.
Burundi’s government has rejected teachers’ demands for better pay and conditions and warned they would face the full force of the law if they did not immediately end strike action.
Zimbabwe said on Friday four foreign-led groups had expressed interest in a stake in state-owned fixed and mobile phone services, despite a deepening crisis which has seen investors flee the troubled country.
President Robert Mugabe has threatened to nationalise one of the country’s largest companies, majority-owned by South Africa’s Anglo American Corporation.
A kingpin in world chess, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov on Sunday will seek a third term as president of Kalmykia, a Russian republic peopled by Buddhists descended from a Mongol tribe he is accused of ruling like a medieval potentate.
The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone on Tuesday hailed landmark elections in the war-ravaged country as ”exemplary.”
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to 85 counts of fraud and theft charges involving nearly R1-million.
Gold and platinum stocks racked up gains on the South African bourse early on Tuesday, fuelled by precious metals prices, with gold appearing set to test the an ounce level.
Zimbabwe has granted a black-owned firm a licence to operate fixed telephone services, a year after the Supreme Court broke a state monopoly of the market, government announced on Wednesday.