Africa must help its 11-million Aids orphans or risk them being driven to the margins of society, All Africa Conference of Churches President Kwesi Dickson warned on Wednesday.
A fortune hangs on the judge’s ruling in the legal battle over Winnie the Pooh, writes Duncan Campbell from Los Angeles.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has gained an important victory in the Mother City’s lower-middle class coloured suburb of Grassy Park. The by-election is one of eight held on Wednesday.
Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among the world’s five worst conflict zones in which to be a woman or a child, according to a new report.
Jack Milne, the managing director of PSC Guaranteed Growth, was on Thursday arrested by the South African Police Service Serious Economic Offences unit in connection with fraud totalling about R250-million.
Researchers have found two species of beetle to be a potent weapon in Africa’s fight against water hyacinths, an aquatic plant indigenous to Brazil that has become a devastating superweed.
Visiting Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim on Wednesday wound up meetings with South African officials ahead of an expected visit by newly elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Two Johannesburgers are set to become the first South Africans to summit the highest peaks on each of the seven continents when they begin their ascent of Mount Everest on Thursday.
Dick Cheney confirmed yesterday what Washington had long assumed: that when President George Bush stands for re-election next year, the most powerful but least visible vice-president in US history will be standing by his side.
Two of the world’s finest trumpeters descend on Johannesburg this weekend, writes Struan Douglas.