Another 1million 2010 World Cup tickets are available and Africans are encouraged to buy. This was the message at the launch of the third ticketing phase in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Already, about 700 000 tickets have been sold worldwide, with 196 days to go before kickoff. Local Organising Committee Chief xecutive Danny Jordan said: “If ...
A horse made of beads and presented to Limpopo Premier Cassel Mathale by a European Union delegation, and his acceptance, symbolises enthusiasm in promoting development. Mr Mathale on Tuesday met with an EU delegation on a three-day visit to the province to check projects funded by the union to the tune of R350million. Delegation head ...
There is no need for the African National Congress to be protected from the South African Communist Party, ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe said on Wednesday. “We must [educate] the younger generation that there is no revolutionary task of protecting the ANC from Communists,” Mr Mantashe said at a memorial service for anti-apartheid activist Chris Dlamini ...
Participants in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) crisis credit facility agreed to expand it by up to 100bn, add new contributing countries and make the facility more flexible, the IMF said this week. The 26 participants in the IMF’s New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB), a standing loan fund for use in times of financial crisis, ...
A conference to look at the future of Sudan against the backdrop of the historic Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) instituted in 2005 started on Wednesday in the South African capital of Pretoria. According to the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), the International Sudan Studies Conference has been organised and coordinated by the Centre of African ...
