Crude oil rocketed to a record high of almost $140 a barrel on Monday despite news that Saudi Arabia was ready to raise output.
Fay Cranmer, Kate Farina, Sindi Ngaba, Christine Ramon, Nompulelo Siswana.
December 15 2006 In an article on uranium prices, “Uranium red-hot on skyrocketing demand“, the name of UraMin, a uranium mining company, was incorrectly referred to as UraMinco. We apologise for the error. July 28 2006 On the front page of its July 28 edition, the Mail & Guardian stated that the Catholic Church is […]
December 19 2007 The report “Arms deal: ‘Ministers got millions’” (December 14 2007) stated that Rolf Wegener had been given a one-year suspended prison sentence on June 9 last year after being found guilty of involvement in a transfer fee scandal at the French soccer club Olympique Marseille in the late 1990s. The Mail & […]
October 21 2008 In the article “ANC unlikely to lose sleep over new party“, published on October 15 2008 and received from the South African Press Association, Professor Steven Friedman was incorrectly quoted as saying: “You need half-a-million votes to get a seat in Parliament.” Friedman has pointed out that half-a-million votes are needed to […]
Another round of talks on the road towards a new global deal on climate change wrapped up on Friday, battered by criticism over progress.
Changes from the top and fresh energy are invigorating the National Arts Festival. Brent Meersman speaks to Tony Lankester, the new chief executive.
The idea of criminalising anti-competitive behaviour and hitting the colluders is an attractive one.
Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change insists it asked President Thabo Mbeki to step down as a mediator following the country’s poll.
Russian historians have tracked down a mass grave on a remote front in World War II believed to contain the remains of 1 000 German and Soviet soldiers, a researcher said on Wednesday.
The Zambian government has begun treating people living with HIV earlier, a move intended to reduce deaths.
South African Breweries (SAB) confirmed on Tuesday that South Africa will be the first country outside Europe to bring to market Dutch beer Grolsch Premier Lager following the acquisition of Royal Grolsch by SABMiller four months ago.
Kenya’s poll body appealed for calm on Tuesday ahead of by-elections seen as a litmus test for a fragile unity government set up after deadly violence following a contested presidential vote in December.
A major Iranian state-owned company has told its single employees to get married by September or face losing their jobs, the press reported on Tuesday.
High global oil prices and cuts in fuel subsidies in some countries will slow growth of oil demand this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast on Tuesday, also reporting a surge in supply in May.
A senior Somali Islamist leader, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, on Tuesday rejected a three-month truce reached between Mogadishu and its main political foes at United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Djibouti a day earlier.
Iran on Monday vowed a "very painful" response to any Israeli action after a senior minister of the Jewish state warned of attacks if Tehran did not halt its atomic drive, the ISNA news agency reported.
Hamas’s exiled political chief, Khaled Meshaal, said his Palestinian Islamist movement was ready for dialogue with its rivals in Fatah during a meeting on Monday with Syria’s foreign minister.
Two members of a suspected spy ring arrested in Zimbabwe three years ago on charges of selling information about the ruling party to South Africa have been released from jail, their lawyer said on Monday.
Oil prices dropped more than $1 on Monday after rocketing to record heights near $140 per barrel late last week, but some analysts warned of a bubble that could burst soon.
India’s Reliance Communications and MTN have agreed "broad contours" of a deal to create a global telecoms powerhouse but are still working out share swap details.
Thomas Malthus, the 18th-century cleric, must be chuckling in his grave. His grim prediction that humanity faced a future of rising food prices and mounting malnutrition has finally arrived.
The regulatory framework that will enforce the energy conservation programme and penalise consumers who use electricity excessively is being finalised, it was reported on Friday.
Trade union Solidarity on Friday said 100 of its members were trapped 900m underground at Gold Fields’ Beatrix mine outside of Welkom in the Free State
With the launch of e.tv’s 24-hour news channel, <i>M&G</i> writers decided to switch on their TV sets and sit out the long news night.
British brewer SABMiller and United States-Canadian Molson Coors said on Thursday US antitrust regulars had concluded a review and that they are "free to
proceed" with a joint venture.
There’s an awful lot of smoke surrounding Cape Judge President John Hlophe. Where’s the fire?
The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s business confidence index declined further to 93 in May from 93,4 in April.
With government workers asking for higher wage increases than the 10,5% announced on Wednesday, the spectre of strikes and second-round inflationary effects looms.
After the Constitutional Court judgements in the Clicks case, in which the majority set aside regulations dealing with pricing and dispensing of medicine, legal commentators raised the question as to whether a significant minority of the court — who appeared to adopt a more pro-executive position — would influence the future direction of the court.
<b>Estimated Aids-related deaths in South Africa: 2 498 738 at noon on June 4 </b> Nearly three-million people in the developing world are now on drugs to prevent their HIV infection becoming Aids, two years after the original deadline to reach that figure was set by the World Health Organisation.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and several of his top lieutenants were detained by police on Wednesday in the approach to a key run-off presidential election on June 27, his party said.