Pretoria – As the closing date approaches, the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) has urged companies to submit their entries for the third annual South African Premier Business Awards. The closing date to enter the awards is 6 March 2015. The awards bring together all single sectored awards that
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the reasons for delay in the disbursement of funds for drought relief promised by neighbour South Africa in 2013 are mutual and cannot be attributed to one government only. Deputy Director of Information and Research in the foreign affairs ministry, Marbeline Mwashekele, made the
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The Syrian government has killed or injured thousands of people over the past year with indiscriminate attacks from the air, including the use of barrel bombs, according to Human Rights Watch. The New York-based rights group used witness statements, satellite imagery and video evidence to document hundreds of attack in
Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana Democratic transition in Africa is historically more complex than in other parts of the world. The intersection of politics with geography, ethnicity, religion and other identity markers are major factors in this regard and nowhere is
German trainer Gernot Rohr has been named coach of the Burkina Faso national football team. He replaces Belgian Paul Put, who parted ways with ‘Les Etalons’ after the Orange Africa Cup of Nations Equatorial Guinae 2015, where the Burkinabes, losing finalists at the previous edition crashed out at the group
Human Rights watchdog Amnesty International held press conference in Johannesburg today to unveil its 2014/2015 annual report, and the news for Zambia is not very positive. The NGO announced that its report had found that hundreds of people across the Southern Africa region who dared to challenge their governments or
Amnesty International’s annual report says conflict and insecurity have afflicted the lives of countless people across Africa. DW spoke to Amnesty’s Africa Director for Research and Advocacy Netsanet Belay. DW: The 2014/2015 State of World Human Rights report calls the global response to human rights shameful and ineffective but it
People in East Africa are awaiting a Chinese-built Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project set to run from Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa to Rwanda’s capital Kigali through Uganda, the latest in a spate of efforts to facilitate transportation and boost trade in the eastern Africa region. It is expected to
The debate on President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address saw impassioned speeches by the leaders of South Africa’s two main opposition parties. We fact-checked key claims. In his response to the State of the Nation Address, Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane made a number of claims about
Secret documents from the country’s State Security Agency obtained by two press outlets reveal how important South Africa has become for foreign intelligence services. The papers contain highly sensitive information. South Africa’s intelligence service, the SSA (State Security Agency), is facing the biggest leak in its history. Hundreds of secret
