STEVEN SWINDELLS, Pretoria | Wednesday THE world’s mightiest drug companies are reconsidering the resumption of their court battle against a South African law allowing imports of cheap copies of their patented anti-Aids drugs. The Business Day newspaper and the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported early on Wednesday that the 39 companies would drop the case […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday THE world’s most powerful drug firms have come under a renewed deluge of criticism from Aids activists, who say the industry puts profits ahead of the lives of the 25 million Africans who live with HIV-Aids. The attack came before the resumption of a landmark case in the Pretoria High […]
SOUTH Africa’s all-items consumer price index rose by 7.4% in the year to March, while the CPIX index targeted by the central bank rose by 7.5%, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. A Reuters consensus poll of economists had forecast CPIX rising 7.4% from 7.7%, while CPI was predicted to gain 7.4% versus 7.8% in […]
OFFICIALS in Benin have boarded a ship suspected of trafficking child slaves that docked in the country’s commercial capital, but there was no sign of the scores of children the vessel was thought to have been carrying. Ramatou Baba Moussa, the social protection minister, said the Nigerian-registered MV Etireno, which UN and local officials originally […]
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MOZAMBIQUE has begun issuing tourist visas at the country’s main borders and at Maputo airport, the nation’s top tourism official said on Monday. “The measure is aimed at increasing tourism in our country, which has made a significant contribution to the national economy,” said national tourism director Antonio Saia. Although called a tourist visa, Saia […]
ROBERT HOLLOWAY, United Nations | Tuesday A UN panel has called for tough measures to stop the plunder of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including a regional ban on exports of timber to and from Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda, saying it was now the motive and engine of the war there. “The […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday ANOTHER twist to South Africa’s controversial R43bn arms deal is expected this week, when feisty PAC MP Patricia De Lille is to release the name of a senior ANC MP alleged to have acted improperly with regard to the awarding of the contract. “I have already stated, and warned the […]