The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is backing a multi-million dollar project to combat "the scourge of violent conflicts" in Africa.
"Our lives will never be the same," said Paul Lebepe, the principal of a rural high school in South Africa’s northern Limpopo province, whose students are benefiting from a new corporate sponsored computer centre.
A Goldman Sachs employment scenario plan released last week indicates that while the rationale for a Growth and Development Summit is still contested, the summit is forcing joblessness to the top of the economic agenda.
Tomorrow the last post will be played, his body lowered into the grave and the committal conducted. Tat’uSisulu will really be no more. Everything will have been said and tears will almost have dried. Truly, Kugqityiwe. Why then, do I, who knew him much less than many who have paid the best of tributes, still think I have something to say?
I was in this place Scandinavia last week. The Scandinavians have got it all organised. That’s why they can afford to be so friendly. The Scandinavians are rich people with small populations. That’s a good start. Unlike us Africans, they keep their families small and affordable. Bankability comes way ahead of ubuntu.
Trade and investment between South Africa and the United States (US) received a boost following a successful visit by South African Minister of Trade and Industry Alec Erwin, to the world’s largest economy last week.
South African electricity utility Eskom says it is ready to proceed to the next stage of South Africa’s premier nuclear project — the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor project — subject to the required statutory approvals being obtained.
It’s a business card we really didn’t want to see: Defence Minister. Vintner. Fuel dealer. Inc. But that is, or was until Thursday, the calling card of Mosiuoa Terror Lekota who did not disclose his business interests both to Parliament and to Cabinet as he is compelled to do by law.
Together with Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Bakili Muluzi of Nigeria and Malawi, I travelled to Zimbabwe recently to discuss with that government and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) what we might do to contribute to the resolution of the problems facing this country.
The drought crisis in Limpopo took a new twist this week when the government announced that it would reject a request from the provincial administration to declare several disaster areas in the region.
The National Electricity Regulator (NER) has rejected speculation that future electricity increases will be above inflation rate.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has lauded the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) as the epitome of multilateralism, which would result in a peaceful and prosperous continent.
If the present economic climate deteriorates further, South African exports will be constrained in both value and volume terms and financial markets will remain volatile, warns Nedcor chief economist Dennis Dykes.
Telecommunications, media and entertainment group Johnnic Holdings Limited on Monday announced details to unbundle 31,9% of its shareholding in telecommunications unit, MTN Group Limited.
UN special envoy Stephen Lewis was inspired on a recent visit to Kenya where he experienced first-hand the determination of the East African country’s government to battle the HIV/Aids pandemic. Read an excerpt of a speech he delivered on the subject at the UN recently.
British aid organisation Oxfam has called on the United Nations (UN) to deploy rapid reaction troops to enforce peace in Bunia, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has been rocked by violence between rival Hema and Lendu militias since the withdrawal of Ugandan troops.
The country’s biggest banking group, Nedcor (NED), had no official comment Monday morning on reports that it had suggested to analysts that they lower their earnings forecasts for the group for the current year.
Zimbabwe’s socio-economic problems are due to more than its current political instability, and South Africa had no right to dictate how these problems should be resolved, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
An aircraft carrying a government delegation sent to ease hostilities between ethnic militias in Ituri District, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was hit by gunfire on Thursday as it approached Bunia airstrip.
South Africa’s second largest gold miner, Gold Fields, is set to invest $160-million on the expansion of its Tarkwa mine in Ghana.
Jo-Anne Richards published her first novel, <em>The Innocence of Roast Chicken</em>, in 1996. It deals with growing up under apartheid. Her second, <em>Touching the Lighthouse</em> (1998), is about the radical politics of the 1980s. Her new novel, <em>Sad at the Edges</em> (Stephan Phillips), is about a South African woman’s return to vibrant Johannesburg after a sojourn in London. Richards lives in Johannesburg, has worked as a journalist and teaches in the postgraduate journalism programme at Wits University.
In one of the largest private equity and black economic empowerment deals of the year, a consortium of private equity investors has announced the acquisition of all the businesses and shares of Ozz Limited, one of SAs largest engineering manufacturing companies.
The South African Reserve Bank should cut interest rates and buy US dollars to stabilise the rand exchange rate, Old Mutual Asset Management head of asset allocation Charles De Kock said on Thursday.
Walter Sisulu would no doubt have been embarrassed by the effusive tributes that have been paid to him since he passed away on Monday night.
Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among the world’s five worst conflict zones in which to be a woman or a child, according to a new report.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has called the overall cereal harvest prospects in southern Africa "generally favourable" with the exceptions of Zimbabwe, parts of Swaziland and southern Mozambique.
Ethiopia is one of the worst countries in the world to be a mother, according to a global study by the non-governmental organisation Save the Children.
Financial markets face a turbulent period in 2003 but sound fundamentals should help South Africa weather the storm, according to Standard Bank group economist Dr Iraj Abedian.
South Africa has the capacity to contain the threat of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars), and keep it from affecting the country’s tourism industry negatively, according to South African Tourism head Cheryl Carolus.
Since Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986, Uganda has been the envy of many developing nations, achieving high economic growth rates. But in the north of the country, a very different situation prevails
South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, with its bio-diversity and malaria free status, continues to attract strong demand for game farms, not only among overseas investors, but increasingly also South African buyers.
Identifying SA as a cost-effective location for servicing the customer contact needs of international businesses, the Dialogue UK Group has invested in a call centre operation in Cape Town, with plans to expand employment to 1 500 people.