Gail Smith joined the historic mission to return the remains of Saartjie Baartman to South Africa.
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) is a unique opportunity to improve governance and lure investment but its conception of government accountability will have to be redefined
Evidence before the Jali commission has highlighted the gross dereliction of leadership in prisons. ‘It’s like a plot in a movie script,” said East Coast Radio presenter Anisa Ussuph
John Matshikiza hits back at revisionist Indian scholar Dinesh D’Souza’s defence of colonialism. What if Shaka had been left alone to build an unprecedented empire on the southern tip of Africa?
The ”Cape Doctor”, the vicious south-east wind, might be blowing across the Peninsula. But it is having no sort of cleansing or curative effect on the malodorous morass of Western Cape politics
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had advance warning of last month’s coup attempt from the secretary general of Opec, Ali Rodriguez, allowing him to prepare an extraordinary plan that saved both his government and his life
Southern Africa has endured widespread food shortages before, but the situation now is far worse partly because of an increase in disease as a result of famished peasants are eating tree stems, sawdust and wild leaves
Talks between the MDC and Zanu-PF have broken down – now negotiators are looking to their leaders for help, ahead of next month’s Group of Eight (G8) summit in Canada
The cardinal of Los Angeles, the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the United States, covered up the case of a confessed paedophile priest for 16 years.
An alarming rise in the ratio of boys among newborns in China suggests that increasing numbers of female foetuses are being aborted by parents intent on having a male child. More than 116 male births were recorded for every 100 female births