MARC Ravalomanana has decided to delay his investiture as president as divisions deepened in Madagascar and two key provinces seceded in protest at his plans to assume the presidency, an aide said on Wednesday.
THE government and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) will meet in court yet again on Thursday and Friday to get the final word on whether nevirapine should be provided at state hospitals to prevent mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV.
Nobody in English football is as equipped to measure the explosive force of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink as the man with the unenviable job of fending off the fire every single day at training.
ARMED extremists killed 31 people, mainly civilians, in two separate massacres overnight in the Tiaret region of western Algeria, officials said on Thursday.
SOUTH African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will lead a delegation of ministers from the 114-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to the Middle East to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the government announced on Tuesday.
A CLASS action lawsuit was filed on Wednesday against three US companies demanding reparations for the descendants of black American slaves from firms that benefited from the slave trade.
WEAK precious metal prices dragged the South African resources-dominated bourse lower in opening trade on Thursday, while a slightly firmer local currency against the dollar also weighed, traders said.
TWO Pietersburg rugby players convicted of murdering Northern Province teenager Tshepo Matloha received 18-year jail sentences in the Pretoria High Court on Thursday.
The best-known photograph from the 1992 World Cup shows Jonty Rhodes hurtling into the stumps at The Gabba to run-out Inzamam-ul-Haq. It flashed around the world, making Rhodes a household name and serving notice that South Africa, the prodigal sons of world cricket, were well and truly back.
The three-member panel just could not agree. What had been the very best aspect of the second day in a row spent on the grass banks of Zandvlei in Muizenberg?