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In today's podcast: ANC President Jacob Zuma assures US officials that it is business as usual in Africa's biggest economy; UN chief Ban Ki-moon says that nearly one quarter of a million civilians...
In today's podcast: Johannesburg's stock exchange does not plan on placing a ban on the short selling of stocks, Eskom is about to start with environmental impact assessments for possible further...
South Africa's Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has raised
concern over the fact that its executive director for its democracy
and governance research programme, Professor Adam Habib, had...
Zambia has maintained that it will not allow genetically modified
foods to enter its territory despite shortages, as biotech foods
are not yet scientifically proved to be suitable for human...
Ghana's ambitious economic and political reform campaign under
President John Kufuor has received another boost with the
announcement that the west African state qualifies for a share in...
Next year's general elections in Zimbabwe are likely to be
characterised by chaos, said Tuesday the country's main opposition
which lost weekend by-elections to President Robert Mugabe's party.
The government was concerned that South African citizens may be
among the 64 alleged mercenaries aboard a possibly US-registered
aeroplane impounded in Zimbabwe on Sunday.
The United States intends to set a six month deadline for an Iraqi
constitution that would lead to elections and a new government for
the war-torn country next year, Secretary of State Colin...
The US said yesterday it was working with African nations to hunt
down a 727 passenger jet stolen in Angola last month, amid fears it
may be used in a reprise of the September 11 attacks.
The US has a moral duty to intervene in Liberia's civil war because
it helped to found the West African nation, the archbishop of
Monrovia said yesterday.
RESPONSE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, THABO MBEKI, TO THE
PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE ON THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS, National
Assembly, Cape Town, 18 February 2003
African countries will be chief beneficiaries of an annual $5
billion US government programme to reward emerging markets that
meet its criteria of good governance, the Financial Times reports.