The new legal norm is now the spirit of the people as interpreted by certain politicians and not through the Constitution.
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa reduced tariffs for transport of petroleum products via Transnet’s pipelines, Nersa said on Monday.
With household spending cooling and businesses reining in production and investment and cutting staff, economic activity will be weak in 2009.
Officials in a county in central China have been told to smoke nearly a quarter million packs of locally made cigarettes annually or risk being fined.
Veronica Lario, wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, contacts lawyer to begin divorce proceedings after series of disputes.
Few places throw the internet’s appetite for energy into relief more sharply than a 12-hectare patch of scrubland in northern Oregon owned by Google.
A 24-year-old Malawian man who claims to be the father of a girl Madonna wants to adopt vowed Sunday to fight the US pop icon’s adoption bid.
Burma has been judged the worst country in the world for online restrictions in a report looking at the repression faced by bloggers.
The central bank cut its repo rate by 100 basis points to 8,5% on Thursday to boost an economy that is facing its first recession in 17 years.
Better-than-expected credit extension and factory-gate inflation data this morning point to a cut in interest rates.
South Africa’s producer price index (PPI) rose by 5,3% year-on-year (y/y) in March from 7,3% y/y in February.
The Competition Tribunal on Wednesday said it had approved the merger of Aquarius Platinum, Rustenburg Platinum Mines and First Platinum.
South Africa’s producer price index (PPI) is expected to have increased in March at 5,5% year-on-year (y/y) from the 7,3% y/y seen in February.
Cabinet asked Health Minister Barbara Hogan on Wednesday to develop a campaign to educate South Africans about swine flu.
ArcelorMittal SA on Wednesday warned that if steel prices slid further it may be forced to look at shutting down facilities.
The increase in South Africa’s consumer price index was up 8,5% year-on-year (y/y) in March from 8,6% y/y in February.
Pravin Gordhan, head of South Africa’s tax authority, is the frontrunner to succeed Finance Minister Trevor Manuel if he is moved to another post.
Lawyers who helped prosecute The Pirate Bay have become the latest targets in an internet backlash over the decision to jail the site’s founders.
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> reviewers give us a list of what’s local and lekker and what’s not.
It may be called swine flu, but an Israeli official on Monday changed the term in order not to pronounce the name of the animal banned by Judaism.
Investors will be looking to the composition of SA’s new Cabinet as a clue to the future policy direction, financial services group Nomura says.
Striking doctors have received letters of dismissal over a work stoppage which centres on grievances over pay and working conditions.
Kenneth Rau is thought to have become the first person in America to be charged with possessing salvia divinorum.
Children as young as 12 are being given guns and forced to fight on the frontline alongside desperate Tamil Tiger rebels.
In the final tally, the African National Congress dominates the National Assembly but misses its two-thirds majority by an inch.
Jacob Zuma’s election victory has been welcomed by ministers in Zimbabwe as intensifying pressure on President Robert Mugabe.
Why did the Congress of the People fare so badly? This was the central question which emerged from South Africa’s fourth democratic election.
The JSE remained flat by noon on Friday with a trader noting that the bourse was hanging and eyeing global
markets.
Swedish group Volvo posted a second consecutive quarterly loss on Friday after a collapse in demand due to the financial crisis.
At what time of the day are you supposed to practise lying on your back with an oversized parsnip in your salivating mouth?
Taliban fighters spilling out of the Swat Valley in Pakistan have swept across Buner, a district 96km from Islamabad.
Easy. Start with a few million voters, throw in a public holiday, add 55-million ballot papers and sprinkle the cocktail with two million paper clips.