Having more than one sexual relationship at the same time is driving the spread of HIV in small landlocked Lesotho. The health sector has long suspected this, but a new report by the National AIDS Commission (NAC), in partnership with

CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has criticised the Zuma administration's slow pace in implementing economic policies the African National Congress (ANC) and alliance partners had agreed to.

THE African National Congress (ANC) yesterday emphatically said it had no intention of nationalising SA mines, saying no party leader would "make policy pronouncements" based on "sentiment" .

AS ANY childcare expert will tell you, if you want to get difficult kiddies to behave, it's best to try to reinforce the positives, not just berate them for the negatives.

ZIMBABWE has placed the blame for not complying with the principles of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP) on the global diamond trade regulator itself, saying the watchdog has reneged on technical assistance to the country.

THE Government has finally bought off the 50 per cent Indeni Petroleum Refinery shares formerly owned by Total International at US$5.5 million, bringing Zambia's ownership of the plant to 100 per cent.

SA's economy was unlikely to show "vigorous growth" until the global recovery was more entrenched, which would probably happen in the second half of next year, Moody's Investors Service said yesterday.

Zimbabwe and other African countries should stimulate debate on the global economic recession to generate strategies for mitigating its effects.

Zimbabwe has done everything possible to ensure full compliance with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme principles, Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu has said.

GLOBAL investment in the hospitality industry had crashed from 127bn in 2007 to less than 2bn in the first quarter of this year, Arthur de Haast, global CEO of hotel advisory group Jones Lang laSalle Hotels said yesterday.

WAY back in 1997, there was an air of excitement in the Port Elizabeth area after a feasibility study had shown that a deep-water port and industrial development zone at Coega, 22km outside the city, was indeed viable.

The labour movement wants the emergency fiscal measures adopted by the Treasury to deal with the recession to become policy over the long term, and wants the Reserve Bank to give up its concentration on reining in inflation by slashing

MORE than 2,500 Zamtel employees and management staff have placed themselves on temporary redundancies between now and the time the company's would-be new owners take over the company operations, the National Union for Communication Workers (NUCW) has said.

CONTRACTORS have moved on site in Solwezi to give the civic centre a facelift and install street lights in a project expected to cost the local authority about K1.7billion.

Local organising committee chief executive Danny Jordaan has urged employers to build stronger working relationships with staff to avoid large-scale industrial action during the World Cup.

Warthogs on Tuesday night grounded an Air Zimbabwe flight from Harare to Bulawayo after the MA60 aircraft struck the wild pigs on the runway as it prepared to take off.

St Anne's Hospital in Harare is battling to pay its 200 workers the salaries awarded by an arbitrator in April.

ZIMBABWE Miners Federation president Trynos Nkomo has said small-scale miners are about to realise their true potential once the federation seals a partnership deal with a Chinese firm that specialises in mining equipment.

The government's delegation to the annual meeting of the Kimberley Process (the regulatory body tasked with ending the global trade in conflict diamonds) has argued there is insufficient evidence to support claims of human rights abuses at the Chiadzwa diamond

The pressure from human rights groups and NGOs across the world is building on the Kimberley Process to ban Zimbabwe from international diamond trade.