State arms manufacturer Denel faces losing a multi-million rand contract to clear mines in northern Iraq, should the United States take over functions currently under the auspices of the United Nations.
South Africa’s privatisation programme has been a disaster that has led to billions of rands in lost revenue, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday.
Mozambique’s economy grew by eight percent in 2002, despite a severe drought that ravaged southern and central districts of the country, President Joaquim Chissano said on Thursday.
The food security situation in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland South province is ”critical”, the latest report by the UN Relief and Recovery Unit has warned.
Swellendam, the picturesque town deep in the Overberg, is a harbinger of things to come in the Western Cape during next year’s election. It is there, against the backdrop of the Langeberg mountains, that the consequences of defections are stark and that a suprising political shift is revealing itself.
The national government is mapping out a plan to stem the effects of drought on agriculture and on communal farmers in Limpopo.
Maggie O’Farrell wonders whether giving birth will affect her writing career.
A new nature film took three years to get on to National Geographic, reports Kristina Gubic.
<strong>CD of the week</strong>: Loyiso: Wine, Women and Song Reggy Moalusi.
<b>Movie of the week:</b> That Nicole Kidman got the Oscar for best actress and not Julianne Moore — for her work in <em>Far from Heaven</em> — is simply baffling, writes Shaun de Waal.