The IMF has given Swaziland a firm thumbs-down on its fiscal reforms, effectively dashing King Mswati III’s hopes of securing international loans.
Triple suicide strikes in Chechnya left nine people dead and over 20 injured as the Russian Muslim region celebrated the end of Ramadan.
SA has reversed gains in its goal of transferring 30% of commercial farmland to blacks by 2014 after aspirant farmers resold land bought for them.
The German city of Bonn has introduced a parking meter for sex workers in order to tax those who just work the streets.
Prominent insurance providers need to review their approach to in-house training programmes, in order to meet key transformation goals.
Rugby World Cup squad member Morne Steyn manages to stay calm ahead of the game, despite all the pressures of good goal kicking.
The scene outside African National Congress headquarters in Johannesburg was calm on Wednesday following violent clashes on Tuesday.
The draft green paper on land reform, released on Wednesday, proposes a single reconfigured four-tier system of land reform.
There was no sign of ANC Youth League rioters in Johannesburg’s city centre on Wednesday ahead of Julius Malema’s disciplinary hearing.
South Africa’s debate on the question of nationalising mines is discouraging investment, but the policy will be clear by mid-2012.