At least 30 people were killed and more than 70 injured early on Monday when a truck loaded with explosives blew up an administration building in the Chechen village of Znamenskoye, a local official reported.
President Thabo Mbeki vowed on Sunday that government would do everything in its power to ensure that the Workers’ Day bus accident which left 51 dead was never repeated.
The South African History Archives has concluded an out of court settlement with the ministries of justice and arts and culture over access to the reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
The country’s biggest banking group, Nedcor (NED), had no official comment Monday morning on reports that it had suggested to analysts that they lower their earnings forecasts for the group for the current year.
South Africa’s Growth and Development Summit to be held on June 7 in Midrand, near Johannesburg, is likely to be an "endorsing" summit, where President Thabo Mbeki and some 200 delegates will endorse a programme of action that has already been decided before the time
Helicopters swept over Congo’s vast jungles on Sunday in an increasingly vain search for scores of people presumed dead after falling from an airplane whose door burst open mid-flight, officials said.
At the Protestant church in Ntoroko, in Uganda’s western Bundibugyo district, Hallelulia, resplendent in his Sunday best, strikes up his bass guitar.
The trial of Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was set to resume in Harare Monday against a background of widening political and economic tensions in the southern African country.
Amrozi, who on Monday became the first suspect to face trial over the Bali blasts, is a village mechanic who has been dubbed the ”laughing bomber” for his apparent indifference to the slaughter.
A New York Times reporter has fabricated and plagiarised dozens of stories that have appeared in the paper, according to a report published on its own front page yesterday.