The smoky singer, would-be cat burglar and all-round oddball talks love, death and sunglasses with Siobhan Grogan.
Ja Rule speaks to Siobhan Grogan about the rap business, his last album and being a hip-hop dad.
The laws requiring that domestic workers be registered could eventually clear the South African job market of unskilled foreign workers, lawyers predict and unionists fear.
Lawyers for opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday they were trying to secure his passport, confiscated by the state last year, to allow him to travel to Malawi next week.
A bloodstained white scarf on a makeshift memorial of concrete bricks and a rusty grid is all that is left here of James Miller, a freelance cameraman killed by the Israeli army as he filmed a documentary about house demolitions in the Gaza Strip.
In the search for MPs in about 20 parliamentary constituency offices this week, we had just one close encounter, missed by a mere 10 minutes: MPs had either ”just left” or were at the office only on certain days.
The assumption that information and communications technology provides a potent antidote to unemployment in South Africa is drawn into serious question by a study released this week.
South Africa’s second largest gold miner, Gold Fields, is set to invest $160-million on the expansion of its Tarkwa mine in Ghana.
Jo-Anne Richards published her first novel, <em>The Innocence of Roast Chicken</em>, in 1996. It deals with growing up under apartheid. Her second, <em>Touching the Lighthouse</em> (1998), is about the radical politics of the 1980s. Her new novel, <em>Sad at the Edges</em> (Stephan Phillips), is about a South African woman’s return to vibrant Johannesburg after a sojourn in London. Richards lives in Johannesburg, has worked as a journalist and teaches in the postgraduate journalism programme at Wits University.
Fears that the United States, backed by Britain, may be plotting to create a climate for "regime change" in Zimbabwe goaded the South African government into a more "hands-on" approach to its northern neighbour.