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The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said that at least 400 000 people registered to vote on the first voter registration weekend held ahead of the 2011 local government elections, The United...
Ten years after the Millennium Declaration took effect, the international community reviewed its progress, setbacks and lessons learned. The deadline for the eight Millennium Development Goals...
Emerging from the throes of colonialism in the 1960s, many analysts theorised that the nascent African states, as opposed to their Asian counterparts, were most likely to record substantial...
In today's podcast, Cosatu secretary-general Zwelinzima Vavi says that the trade union remains committed to the ANC-led tripartite alliance; the Unctad reports that poverty is on the rise despite...
The number of people living in extreme poverty continued to grow in the world’s poorest countries, despite the 49 least-developed countries (LDCs) showing growth of about 7% over the last decade,...
South Africa ranks 34th out of 183 countries in the World Bank's ‘Doing Business 2011' report, which was released on Thursday, placing the country just below Taiwan and above Mexico.
In a great show of support for Africa's Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba), Russian Federation President, Dmitry Medvedev has submitted two protocols attached to the Treaty of...
The emergence of China as Africa's top trading partner and a leading source of foreign investment in 2009, surpassing the United States and key European Union states still struggling in the...