Settlers on formerly white-owned farms in Zimbabwe have been accused of torturing pets left behind by fleeing owners, a privately-owned paper said Sunday.
South Africa’s Minerals and Energy ministry said on Tuesday that the retail price of petrol would rise by five cents per litre from Wednesday.
Angolans must institute legal action against a host of western multinational companies and banking institutions which enabled that country’s government to commit crimes of humanity against its people, says a Namibian rights group.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi arrived in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, by road from neighbouring Swaziland on Sunday, on the third stage of a journey through southern Africa.
A 29-year security guard was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly went on a shooting spree in Honeydew, Johannesburg wounding three women, police said.
Zimbabwe police said on Sunday they had arrested at least 133 white farmers for defying orders to vacate their farms under President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reform program.
In the run-up to a possible US-led offensive on Iraq, US oil companies and strategic planners have their sights on another gulf – West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, a booming backwater surpassing Saudi Arabia in oil exports to the United States.
South African food and furniture retailer Shoprite Holdings said on Thursday it had opened a hypermarket store in the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, boosting its presence on the African continent.
South African phone utility Telkom, which the government plans to list by March, lifted annual earnings 17% to R1,915-billion on Monday.
Oil prices eased a little more on Thursday after a steep fall the day before on signs of reduced tension in the Middle East and weakness in US gasoline demand.