Fraught

Absa Group paid former CEO Daniel Mminele a total amount of R30.47 million in what was a fraught separation last year. Mminele left the group “mutually” on April 30, 2021 after agreeing to step down on April 20. He had been in the job for…

Western companies have cut ties en masse with Russia since Vladimir Putin sent his troops into Ukraine. But even as banks such as Goldman Sachs and energy companies like BP said they were exiting the market, they gave precious little…

The government of former prime minister David Cameron went “all out” for shale. The promised revolution never happened. Britain’s only two viable shale gas wells are about to be plugged with concrete. Yet Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing disquiet at home and danger abroad, President Joe Biden will deliver his first…

BEIJING: China's Sui Wenjing and Han Cong made sure the Beijing Games' controversial figure skating competition ended in celebration on Saturday by winning the pairs title for the sport's final gold medal to the rapture of local fans.…

Spotify arrived more than a decade ago with an appealing proposition: Listeners could leave their CDs and downloads behind and stream virtually every song ever released. It made the platform a top power in the music business and ushered in…

People wearing face masks at a supermarket in Suva, Fiji, April 23, 2021.Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesCountries all over the world have seen Covid-19 cases surge since the emergence of the highly transmissible omicron variant, with new…

Millions of French children headed back to school on Monday without the usual knock-on effect of school holidays: lower levels of paediatric Covid-19 infections. This time Omicron is behind an unchecked viral spread…

Issued on: 12/11/2021 - 03:53 UN climate talks headed towards a rocky conclusion Friday after two weeks of fraught debate failed to resolve several key disputes or produce the…

Nestled on her Chesterfield sofa, her electric wheelchair close at hand, Rosemary Dyer surveyed the glittering peacock figurines she had snapped up on her first solo trip to San Francisco’s Chinatown after leaving prison, and admired the…