After several 419 fraudsters tried to trade on a bogus ”government mining department”, the Department of Minerals and Energy established a risk management unit to work with police and intelligence officials to track down these conmen.
Only two years ago the idea of the world’s major pharmaceutical companies being ready to charge poor countries lower prices for essential drugs looked like an unrealistic idealist’s dream.
A disregard of protocol turned the annual CAF Awards into shambles after SA Football Association president Molefi Oliphant and his colleagues left the Sandton Convention Centre before the announcement of the winners on Tuesday night.
Fiery Springbok hooker James Dalton announced his retirement from all rugby at an emotion-charged press conference in Randburg, Johannesburg on Tuesday.
There has been some useful stuff in the newspapers about women, recently. More specifically, what exactly it means when they do strange, hitherto inexplicable things, as you’re talking to them.
It may be waging an illegal war against a sovereign state; it may be seeking to destroy every treaty that impedes its attempts to run the world, but when five of its captured soldiers were paraded in front of the Iraqi television cameras, suddenly the United States has discovered the virtues of international law.
A proposal that could curb the illegal trade in perlemoen has fallen between two stools, with neither the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism nor its fisheries arm able to explain why the process has ground to a halt.
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Oxfam or Islamic Relief? Post a cheque or donate online? Anyone wanting to help meet the huge needs of Iraq and its citizens faces an almost bewildering choice of charities and appeals asking for support, as well as a variety of ways to give money or offer help.
A senior Iraqi official made a televised address tonight which he said was from the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, calling for Muslims to join in a holy war against the coalition invasion.