The European Union has provisionally agreed to recognise South Africa’s quality control systems for fresh fruit and vegetables exported to Europe, the government said on Wednesday.
The precedent of a tourist massacre in Egypt in 1997 suggests Indonesia will suffer a 20% drop in foreign visitors following last month’s deadly bombing on the resort island of Bali, the World Bank said in a report published on Wednesday.
Charges have been laid against a couple who are alleged to have held a teenage girl captive in the bedroom of their suburban home for two years.
The government and internet company Host City reached an out-of-court settlement on Monday in a dispute over the e-mail address, ‘[email protected]’.
Employees in the formal non-agricultural business sector earned on average R5725 per month in February 2002, some 12,4% more than a year before.
The four Grootvlei Prison inmates who videotaped their warders selling drugs, alcohol, firearms and juvenile ”sex slaves” to inmates have been given 24-hour protection.
Building a nuclear weapon is a long, complex and dangerous task that requires lots of fissile material, advanced knowledge, specialised laboratories and a deep treasure chest.
A Japanese H-2A rocket was launched successfully on Tuesday, releasing a satellite and test module into orbit.
Japan’s space agency was trying to steer a new satellite into its planned orbit on Saturday, after two previous attempts to do so failed when the main thrusters stalled, an agency official said.
Unarmed opposition and civil society groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) began informal talks on Friday with South African President Thabo Mbeki, aimed at finding common ground between them and the other belligerents in DRC’s war.