No government agency can, on its own, take responsibility for fighting corruption, prominent Mozambican jurist Abdul Carimo, director of the government's Legal Reform Technical Unit (UTREL), warned on Wednesday.
The United States Embassy in Mozambique announced on Wednesday the launching of two development programmes in Zambezia and Nampula provinces that will cost about 50 million US dollars during the next five years.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that it is making a credit of 14.2 million Special Drawing Rights (SDRs - about 22.6 million US dollars) available to Mozambique under the Fund's Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF).
A senior figure in Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party on Wednesday confirmed to the Maputo City Court that in 2007 the publicly owned airports company, ADM, had financed a Frelimo festivity to the tune of 400,000 meticais (about 14,650 US dollars, at current exchange rates).
Hundreds of Khayelitsha residents who lost their homes in a devastating blaze - the first major fire of the season - were up early on Thursday morning trying to recover possessions and rebuild their houses.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has declared that President Jacob Zuma will serve two terms as president of the country and of the ANC and warned that any bid to challenge this would fail.
Earlier this week saw the South African première of Clint Eastwood's Invictus, starring Academy Award winners Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The South African cast includes Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng, Matt Stern, Leleti Khumalo and Marguerite Wheatley as Francois Pienaar's wife.
Fire Tree Design and Goldswain Global Advertising have joined forces and will operate out of new offices at Westway Office Park in Westville, Durban. Both entities, whilst sharing premises, will initially run as individual units to allow amalgamation of skills and resources to take their natural course over a period.
Establishments to be used during the 2010 FIFA World Cup will need to register the details of their accommodation booking and listings at Rooms4u.travel.
Sandton Convention Centre (SCC) hosted Soccerex '09, one of the leading events for the global football industry, for the third consecutive year from 28 November to 2 December. With just six months to go before the FIFA 2010 event, soccer excitement was in full swing among enthusiasts from all over the world.
After initially asking for three annual electricity price increases of 45%, on 1 December Eskom reduced this request to 35% a year for three years. This comes in the wake of pressure from all political parties as well as Cosatu, with significant concerns being raised about the inflationary effects of such large price rises, as well as the impact on an economy still struggling to cope with the ...
A total of 12 top companies were rewarded in the categories of humanities, science, engineering and commerce at the ceremony hosted yesterday, Tuesday, 8 December 2009, at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg and attended by delegates from 50 companies.
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The allocation for higher education is expected to grow from R15.3 billion in the 2008/09 financial year to R21.3 billion in 2011/12.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has expressed support for a proposal by civil society to establish a National Council on Poverty.
Public Service and Administration Minister, Richard Baloyi has reiterated government's position that official vehicles "are and remain the property of the state provided to ministers as tools to execute their functions."
The Ministry of Public Service and Administration will aggressively cut all future spending on advertising and marketing in the next financial year.
Green Scorpions have discovered 20 tons of medical waste buried at an unused Harmony Gold mine in Welkom.
SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma yesterday said Zambia was an ideal country for investment and called on South African investors to seriously consider improving the lives of ordinary people in areas where they have invested.
DUE to severe beatings inflicted on him when he was a toddler, 24-year-old Mulenga Bwalya Mweso is hard of hearing in one ear.
AS the economic crunch continues to batter nations and throw millions of people into deeper poverty, the concept of social transfers is increasingly becoming a popular mode of ensuring social protection.
ONE of the sectors to have been most affected by the world economic crisis has been the financial sector, which resulted in world stock markets falling, large financial institutions collapsing or being bought out, and governments in even the wealthiest nations coming up with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems.
ZAMBIA Episcopal Conference (ZEC) President, George Lungu has appealed to St John the Baptist brothers to pray for the ex-communicated Roman Catholic Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo.
NORTH-Western Province Permanent Secretary Eustern Mambwe has urged the North-Western Water Supply and Sewerage Company (NWWSCL) to move at a rate that will meet the growing demands of sewerage services in Solwezi and the entire province.
THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested three accountants and an administrative manager at the Ndola District Health Management Team (NDHMT) for money laundering involving more than K200 million.
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