Crude oil prices slumped to eight-month lows below $90 a barrel on Monday as worsening financial turmoil triggered fears about slowing demand.
A decision by Tata to shift a factory for the world’s cheapest car after protests has refueled debate about India’s troubled industrialisation push.
The US government is cutting its funding for the supply of contraceptives to family planning clinics run by Marie Stopes International in Africa.
The US on Friday haggled over a revised version of a $700-billion Wall Street bailout, with leading Democrats optimistic the package would be passed.
Radical Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr issued a fresh call on Friday for United States troops to withdraw from Iraq.
ON CIRCUIT: <i>Before the Rains</i>, <i>Beverly Hills Chihuahua</i>, <i>My Best Friend’s Girl</i> as well as the Pride Film Festival.
As the global markets have gone into meltdown, South Africa is relatively isolated — but only relatively.
The aftershocks from Thabo Mbeki’s sacking continue to reverberate through South Africa.
SA’s new leader on Thursday backed former president Thabo Mbeki as the mediator in Zimbabwe, saying he would revive a stalled power-sharing deal.
Nintendo said on Thursday it will launch a new version of its popular DS handheld console with a built-in camera and audio player next month.
The world’s financial markets remain at the eye of a perfect economic storm. The architects of this almighty financial sell-off? The banks themselves.
The South African Qualifications Authority has invited Professor Tony Watts to address heads of industry on the importance of career guidance.
Tertiary students will benefit from a new finance package aimed at giving them access to personal computers and Notebooks.
Education Minister Naledi Pandor is considering making the undergraduate degree a four-year degree, but this depends on conditions at each university.
Business education is becoming more accessible thanks to new technology, which allows more flexible learning.
StumbleUpon stepped up its personalised website recommendation service on Wednesday by launching an online query page.
An offbeat suggestion that Australians should eat kangaroos instead of cattle and sheep has been given a scientific stamp of approval.
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/ 30 September 2008
On World Contraceptive Day Errol Nkonko Mutamba looks at why women are not using birth control
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/ 30 September 2008
Professor Hoosen “Jerry” Coovadia from the University of KwaZulu-Natal has been appointed to the board of the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, an international organisation that is developing vaccines against tuberculosis. Coovadia is director of Biomedical Science and the Centre for HIV/Aids Networking at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine at the University of […]
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/ 30 September 2008
Tokyo police said on Tuesday they had arrested a man with a passion for women’s underwear who used a fishing rod to reel them in.
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/ 30 September 2008
Stolen cellphones are being taught to turn against thieves by sending home word of where they are and letting owners snoop on calls.
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/ 30 September 2008
Panicky investors dumped shares on Tuesday after United States lawmakers unexpectedly shot down a Wall Street bailout plan.
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/ 30 September 2008
South African cineastes and cinephiles can catch up with already-released South African films they might have missed at the Apollo Film Festival.
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/ 30 September 2008
The axing of Thabo Mbeki has triggered a sense of disorientation and terror in the hearts of the middle classes, both white and black.
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/ 29 September 2008
Two planes were forced to circle over a Greek island awaiting permission to land on Monday after an air-traffic controller overslept.
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/ 29 September 2008
Dubai boasts a new resort billed as unique in the Middle East: the ocean-themed Atlantis, where a night will cost up to $25 000.
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/ 29 September 2008
Cas Coovadia, managing director of the Banking Association of South Africa, talks to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> about the industry’s progress.
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/ 29 September 2008
Lerato Mametse, deputy chief executive of the Life Offices’ Association, talks about the progress of the LOA in terms of the financial sector charter.
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/ 29 September 2008
Jan Mahlangu, retirement funds coordinator for Cosatu, speaks to us about the Financial Sector Charter.
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/ 29 September 2008
The stand-in president is one of the only people who can heal the party’s wounds.
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/ 28 September 2008
Counter-terrorist officers in Syria on Sunday hunted for those behind a car bomb attack that killed 17 people in Damascus.
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/ 28 September 2008
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and leading lawmakers early on Sunday reported "great progress toward" reaching a Wall Street bail-out plan.