President Thabo Mbeki called on G8 countries on Friday to follow through on promises of support for Africa's socio-economic rescue plan Nepad. "The other G8 members have got to respond in the manner that Japan has," Mbeki said at the

One of the trio of cases against former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown was postponed in his absence on Friday because he was reportedly not feeling well. Cape Town Regional Court magistrate Wilma van der Merwe postponed the hearing to

President Thabo Mbeki must release the letter he allegedly wrote to George Bush asking the American president to "butt out" of Zimbabwe, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. Mbeki's four-page letter to Bush apparently criticised the United States for taking

South African society has yet to rid itself of the anguish, pain and degradation of the past, Arts and Culture Minister Pallo Jordan said on Friday. Speaking at the launch of a "social cohesion" campaign, Jordan said the recent xenophobia

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees also said it would help authorities find sites for temporary camps for an estimated 42,000 people in need of shelter. "We hope that this initial donation will contribute to alleviating the suffering of displaced

OLIVIA Mbango lives in the Hakahana informal settlement on the outskirts of Windhoek with her two children and eight nieces and nephews she takes cares of.

More than 20 female learners in the North West on Thursday have spent time at work with senior government officials to better prepare themselves for the job market.

What were those Constitutional Court judges thinking when they declared that these excitable Ugandans are free to hold demonstrations, when and where they want? Have they forgotten how demonstrations in the past have played out? Or were they eating sausages

Pronouncement by the Board of Directors of the National Port Authority (NPA) to relieve two officials of their position has witnessed lots of criticisms from some employees and the public against the decision by the Board on grounds that the

The Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has appealed to Zamtel management to seriously consider the economic and social implications of its impending retrenchment of about 800 workers.

If the protracted negotiations between Skorpion Zinc and the Mineworkers' Union of Namibia were the Beijing Olympics, there would have been no winners, so say the union and the mine management.

CONTEMPT of court charges against NBC Director General Bob Kandetu have been withdrawn after the corporation undertook to pay a penalty prescribed by the District Labour Court in a case of unfair dismissal by Friday next week.

Health and Social Welfare minister David Mwakyusa's assertion on Wednesday that the country is facing a grave health crisis fuelled by a critical shortage of medical workers is further confirmation of an ailing public health care system.

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Engineer Ebele O. Okeke CFR, has charged the entire federal workforce to always have faith in contributing their own quota to the ideals of what President Musa Yar'Adua stands to achieve

Recently retrenched Uganda People's Defence Forces soldiers in the north are crying foul over the continued delay in executing the payment of their retirement packages since they were sent home a couple of months ago.

Guinea's hasty attempt to grant the demands of mutinous soldiers ending a two-day civil disobedience over back pay could weaken their authority to manage political and economic pressures in a country that risk a 'coup d'etat,' analysts observed.

Officially, everything is fine in the export processing zones (EPZs) in Mauritius. But, in reality, many foreign workers suffer dismal working conditions. Those who organise to improve their lot do so under the constant threat of intimidation and deportation.

A NATIONAL mineworkers' strike was narrowly averted yesterday after the Skorpion Zinc Mine reached agreement with the Mineworkers' Union of Namibia (MUN).

Third World countries or what used to be called LDC's (least developed countries) fight many wars least of them the yoke of perpetual poverty which keeps them in the bottom statistical rump that earns them such references as "backward nations".

Ten suspected gangsters who were arrested last week in connection with robbery and rape of a doctor at Nansana in the central district of Wakiso were charged yesterday and sent to Luzira.