Public servants may be in line for a double-digit pay increase this year. Briefing the media at Parliament on Tuesday, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said the current wage agreement stipulated an increase of CPIX plus 1%.
It is estimated that 5,6-million South Africans are infected with HIV/Aids in 2008, said the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA) on Tuesday. The HIV prevalence rates from the ASSA 2003 model are " roughly consistent" with the national prevalence
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has suspended its group executive of news and current affairs, Snuki Zikalala, with immediate effect. The public broadcaster said Zikalala had been suspended by chief executive Dali Mpofu pending the outcome of a probe
Governmental food-price regulation was not the right way to handle the "potential crisis" around increased food costs, the Milk Producers Organisation said on Tuesday. Director Etienne Terre'Blanche said the problem with regulating prices was that the country could not regulate
Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai won 47.9 per cent of the vote on March 29 and Mugabe took 43.2pc, said chief elections officer Lovemore Sekeramayi. The result was announced after a verification process by the candidates to check
Mugabe won 43.2 per cent of the vote and since neither candidate won more than 50 per cent, a second round run-off will have to be held, Lovemore Sekeramayi, chief elections officer, told reporters in Harare. "Since no candidate has
The killing of Aden Hashi Ayro comes amid escalating fighting and a spiraling humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa nation. Islamist fighters have staged a series of attacks on towns in the months leading up to the UN-sponsored talks,
The killing of Aden Hashi Ayro comes amid escalating fighting and a spiraling humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa nation. Islamic fighters have staged a series of attacks on towns in the months leading up to the U.N.-sponsored talks,
The necessity of transforming Mauritius into a sustainable island seems to be taking root in each and everyone's mind. The bulk of the population now realizes that the country has to turn to renewable energies if it is to ensure
National coordinator of Friends of the Earth has said that this year's celebration of World Environmental Day scheduled for June 5 would be marked by the cleaning of Kenema and it environs.
The military governement had a provisional death toll of 10,000 from this weekend's devastating cyclone, with another 3,000 more missing after cyclone Nargis struck one of the world's poorest countries. A man walks past an uprooted tree in central Yangon,
The Public Service sector would reach its target of 50 percent women in senior management positions by March 2009, says Minister of Public Services and Administration Geraldine Moleketi.
This submission summarizes Human Rights Watch's key concerns with Zambia's fulfillment of its human rights obligations and commitments in the context of women's human rights and HIV/AIDS, and outlines recommendations to Zambia.
GOVERNMENT has investigated complaints about foreign companies operating in Namibia, especially Chinese ones, and found them to be in the wrong, particularly on occupational health and safety, minimum wages and conditions of employment.
Sudanese officials and representatives of donor nations opened a major conference in Norway on 5 May, amid warnings that the provisions of a three-year-old peace accord had fallen dangerously behind schedule.
The international community needs to refocus on South Sudan and to increase support for recovery and development there, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General said today.
Days after the UN and African Union condemned as unacceptable the bombings of villages and markets in Darfur by Sudanese government planes, at least 13 people were reported killed in an attack on a primary school and market in North
Five men were Thursday alleged to have pointed guns at a young woman and forced her to shut up while they raped her at a nearby bush in Yengema village, Kono district.
