The strike by the Public Service Association has had no major impact on essential services rendered by the Department of Home Affairs, according to spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 11:31 PM

Police Inspector Sbusiso Zungu has told a Pinetown court that KwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize will be in danger if the five men accused of plotting to kill him are released on bail. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 11:16 PM

Two women have appeared in a Welkom court after an investigation into human trafficking in the Free State, according to police. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 11:01 PM

Limpopo authorities have re-arrested an awaiting-trial prisoner who escaped from the Thohoyandou police holding cells earlier this week. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 10:46 PM

Sibongile Muthwa, the director-general of the Eastern Cape, will step down at the end of her contract this year to pursue other interests. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 10:31 PM

Thousands of public service workers have downed tools - and union leaders believe the strike could set the stage for nearly a million workers to do the same next week. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 10:16 PM

Lawyers for drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti have highlighted a number of problems in the testimony of former security boss Clinton Nassif. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 10:01 PM

ZANU PF has announced that Sabina Mugabe has died after a long illness. She was 76. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 9:55 PM

The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has announced that four new media houses have been granted licenses to operate in the country. According to the ZMC chairperson Godfrey Majonga, the Cable News Agency and the African Open Media Initiative will run news agencies, while Berimark Enterprises will publish a monthly magazine called Zimceleb and Feyjay Investments will publish a weekly sports magazine called Sport/24. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 9:55 PM

An exiled Zimbabwean businessman, who says his bank was illegally seized by the government in 2004, has condemned the recent takeover of that same institution by Interfin Financial Services Limited. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 9:55 PM

The harassment of MDC members is continuing across the country amid widespread fears that ZANU PF has started an early election campaign. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 9:55 PM

An 86-year-old woman was raped in her garden in Kulogongotha near Willowvale, Eastern Cape police have said. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 9:46 PM

Two men have been arrested for theft of a motor vehicle in Bronkhorstspruit, police said. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 9:31 PM

"When they woke up that morning and said goodbye to their loved ones, no-one knew they would not be home that afternoon," says Bheki Cele at the memorial service of the officers who died in a helicopter crash. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 9:16 PM

If you are planning to visit Luanda, Tokyo, N'Djamena Moscow or Geneva, be warned that they are the top five most expensive cities in the world. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 8:45 PM

The violence and intimidation being perpetrated by ZANU-PF to sabotage the constitutional outreach programme has turned into a fully-fledged official campaign dubbed, Operation "Vhara Muromo", which means "Shut Your Mouth". allafrica.com | 7/29/10 7:27 PM

THE successful hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup was undoubtedly a plus for South Africa, a country whose crime rate is among the highest in the world. While the event offered South Africa an opportunity to be truly the Rainbow Nation that it has always wanted to be, the spectre of xenophobia threatens to spoil that huge milestone as the welfare of thousands of foreign immigrants who contributed to that country's successfully hosting of the World Cup skirt the knife's edge of simmering racial intolerance. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 4:31 PM

On July 19, the BCP congress elected members of the central committee in accordance with the party constitution and elections regulations. The elections were conducted by the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa. www.mmegi.bw | 7/29/10 4:24 PM

STANDARD Chartered Bank is providing nearly R3bn to fund agricultural production in SA, using an innovative scheme that avoids the conventional approach of asking farmers to provide a physical asset as security. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 1:59 PM

GOOD broadcasting about music is rare. Most South African stations assume that music radio means a "personality" playing records. The level of knowledge among DJs is distressingly low, and tight play-listing seems to preclude any choice outside mass-market popularity. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 1:36 PM

GOLD One, which is increasing the Modder East mine near Johannesburg, may have to hedge up to 200 000oz of gold to cover a $65m loan it is finalising. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 1:36 PM

ARCELORMITTAL appears to be headed for another clash with Kumba Iron Ore, this time over cheap supplies for its steel mills from the Thabazimbi mine. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 1:36 PM

THE unbundling of Mvelaphanda Resources (Mvela) has been pushed back from the end of this year to about May next year after an arbitration process with Khumama Platinum failed to reach resolution last week. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 1:36 PM

NEDBANK's battle with Pinnacle Point investors took a twist yesterday when legal opinions were established to be fraudulent. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 1:36 PM

THE Department of Trade and Industry yesterday released the latest copy of the amended Companies Act, which has addressed significant grammatical errors and concerns about flaws in the legislation. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 1:33 PM

Brigitte Rasamoelina and Yvette Sylla are women with two different approaches to politics in Madagascar. One formed a political party, while the other decided to legalise her organisation as an association. But both women are considering running in Madagascar's November elections. ipsnews.net | 7/29/10 1:26 PM

DESMOND Tutu is a global treasure. So, his decision to stand down from public life will leave this country - and the world - a chillier place. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 1:22 PM

Mr Bennett told the BBC's southern Africa correspondent, Karen Allen, that the outcome of the appeal against him depended on what orders the judiciary received from the "military junta rulin... story.zimbabwestar.com | 7/29/10 11:59 AM

The trial of murder accused Glenn Agliotti has been delayed after recording equipment was stolen from the court room at the High Court in Johannesburg. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 11:24 AM

Local organising committee chief financial officer Farouk Seedat was shot in the abdomen and a thigh by one of the two men who broke into his Gallo Manor, Sandton, house two days ago. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 11:09 AM

The five employees humiliated in the infamous Reitz residence incident are satisfied that the four young men involved will not go to jail, but will be taught a lesson. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 10:54 AM

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The leadership of Angola's main opposition Unita party Wednesday in Luanda refuted the content of an article that appeared in the wednesday issue of the the State-run daily paper "Jornal de Angola", titled "The coup thesis of Unita Youth Wing", and labelled it as a way of counteracting the outcome of the congress of the party's youth wing (JURA), held recently in Luanda. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:43 AM

Women are the majority in the Angolan informal market, even though they now start to have the same levels of professional responsibility and competences as men. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:43 AM

The Angolan senior males basketball team will face South Korea on Friday, in the USA, ahead of the preparation for the Turkey World Cup, which will happen from 28 August to 12 September, ANGOP has learnt. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:43 AM

The Road Traffic Management Corporation has wasted millions of rands in mismanagement, irregular procurement and over-expenditure, among others, says Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 10:39 AM

Containers being offloaded in Walvis Bay, Namibia, for further transport into Southern Africa.

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THE boss of the NamGem diamond-cutting and polishing company at Okahandja, Eliphas Hawala, will become the managing director of Government's new company Epangelo Mining. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:30 AM

BP Plc is in talks with India's Reliance Industries and Essar Group to sell its African retail assets, including those in Namibia, that could be worth as much as US$500 million, four sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters yesterday. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:30 AM

DOMESTIC workers across Namibia are fired up to revive a domestic workers union, negotiate minimum wages and fight to improve their general working conditions. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:30 AM

A NEW team has been appointed to lead the Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC), one of Namibia's largest and oldest NGOs and a pioneer of the community-based natural resource management programmne. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:30 AM

ROAN NEWS, the biannual magazine of the Namibian Environment and Wildlife Society (NEWS), has just been published as a special edition dealing with the sustainable use of wildlife. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:30 AM

THE Congress of Democrats (CoD) has suspended its youth wing secretary general on allegations of financial maladministration. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:30 AM

THE Ministry of Regional and Local Government is compiling a report on the findings of a recent investigation into a land dispute between the Oshikuku Village Council and the local Roman Catholic Church. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:29 AM

THE illegal hunting of wild animals taints Namibia's international image. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:29 AM

THE horror slaying of Magdalena Stoffels has unleashed a storm of condemnation from across the country and she is set to become the face of the voiceless victims of violence in Namibia following the tsunami of emotion that has erupted since her violent death on Tuesday morning. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:29 AM

After a two-day search that had South Africans gripped, Panjo the missing tiger was on Thursday morning back home and lounging on the couch. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 10:24 AM

European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht has appeased leading European civil society organisations about the negotiations for a Southern African economic partnership agreement (EPA), promising "not to put undue pressure" on countries. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:16 AM

Angola will host on 13-29 November the 14th edition of the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) Cup in the cities of Lubango, Southern Huila province, and Benguela. allafrica.com | 7/29/10 10:10 AM

Panjo the hand-reared tiger spent the morning lolling about in Groblersdal, lapping up the attention he was receiving after being missing for two days. vne-resource.iol.co.za | 7/29/10 10:09 AM