Burundi is very near collapsing, conflict analyst Jan van Eck said on Wednesday, but added: ”There is no doubt the problem can be solved.”
The SA National Taxi Council (Santaco), a body representing over 100 000 taxi owners, committed itself on Tuesday to a minimum wage and basic conditions of employment in the industry, the Department of Labour said.
Projects flowing from the country’s multi-billion rand arms deal have directly created nearly 6 700 jobs, it emerged at an Institute for Security Studies (ISS) seminar in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Video technology should be used to eliminate the need for awaiting-trial prisoners to be physically present in court merely to have their cases postponed, the SA Law Reform Commission proposed on Tuesday.
South Africans married under Islamic law came one step closer on Tuesday to having their unions legalised, with the release of proposed draft legislation to this effect.
Government buildings, starting with the Union Buildings in Pretoria and Parliament in Cape Town, are to be made more energy-efficient.
The leaders of last week’s military coup in Sao Tome and Principe are ready to return power to the elected government, Cape Verde Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves said on Monday.
A South African zoo director Monday defended plans by the Malaysian government to send four baby gorillas to the country, saying his zoo was the best place for the primates, who would be killed if let out into the wild.
Significant direct Iranian investment in South Africa reflect robust economic ties between the two countries, Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Monday.
A 61-year-old pensioner accused of plotting with the Boeremag to overthrow the government told the Pretoria High Court on Thursday he had Alzheimer’s disease and other severe medical problems.
A forum to promote trade and investment opportunities in Iran and South Africa is to be launched at the seventh session of the bilateral commission of the two countries in Pretoria next week.
An application by former president F W de Klerk for an interdict preventing him from having to testify for the defence in the Boeremag trial is to serve before the Pretoria High Court next Tuesday.
South Africans are reaching for the stars in many ways. Take Sibusiso Vilane, the first black man to conquer Mount Everest, or Mark Shuttleworth, who became the world’s second space tourist after his information-technology business sky-rocketed.
A looming municipal strike was averted on Tuesday when the largest local government labour union agreed to a lowered pay rise of 10,5%.
The death of a family member due to Aids is often only the first, and not the worst, ordeal the survivors have to face, an anthropological economist said on Tuesday.
South Africa and Egypt are to look into ways of increasing the volume of trade between them, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Tuesday.
It was time to extend the healthy bilateral ties between South Africa and Egypt to the field of trade, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Monday.
A pro-government Congolese militia — one of several factions in the Mai-Mai ethnic group — has retracted claims that South Africa is smuggling weapons into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in collusion with mercenaries.
Any US military role in Liberia will be ”very limited in duration and scope”, intended only to help west African peacekeepers get established there, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday.
United States President George Bush’s South African visit clearly pleased the Pretoria government on Wednesday, while scores of protesters condemned his presence in the country.
US President George Bush said on Wednesday he would not overstretch US forces already on manpower-intensive missions in Iraq, the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, with a major deployment in Liberia.
United States President George Bush gave his blessing on Wednesday to South Africa’s efforts to resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe.
It was all sweetness and light as South African President Thabo Mbeki and United States President George Bush faced the world media in Pretoria after a brief meeting.
Supporters of the Zimbabwe opposition Movement for Democratic Change marched on the United States embassy in Pretoria on Wednesday to bring the crisis in their country to the attention of visiting US President George Bush.
Visiting United States President George Bush was welcomed by President Thabo Mbeki at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday. The motorcade carrying him and his wife Laura arrived shortly after 9.30am at the west wing of the buildings.
The Census 2001 results proved that South Africa’s transformation was on track, the African National Congress (ANC) said on Tuesday.
Former president FW de Klerk might turn to the courts in a bid to avoid having to testify for the defence in the Boeremag treason trial, his attorney said on Monday.
A Pretoria High Court judge on Friday criticised the Tshwane metro council for ignoring court orders and legal procedures, leaving 36 families, counting amongst ”the poorest of the poor”, out in the veld in the middle of winter.
An organisation campaigning for freedom for Boers met Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi in Pretoria on Friday to convey their concerns.
Domestic workers who lose their jobs after an employee’s death would be entitled to claim from the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), in terms of draft legislation due to be passed by the end of the year.