Two of the world’s finest trumpeters descend on Johannesburg this weekend, writes Struan Douglas.
<b>Movie of the week:</b> In a series of short but telling scenes, <i>Pollock</i> shows how Jackson Pollock’s turbulent life and art intertwine, writes Shaun de Waal.
The collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime has left the Al-Luaibis and middle class families like them struggling to survive in a country they barely recognise.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has called the overall cereal harvest prospects in southern Africa "generally favourable" with the exceptions of Zimbabwe, parts of Swaziland and southern Mozambique.
Many small South African wine exporters could be forced to shut down their operations entirely if the exchange rate of the rand does not weaken within the next six months.
Nelson Mandela was lauded on Wednesday for his work to improve the physical and emotional lot of children and for his contribution to their literary world.
A former employee of Gold Fields Ltd., South Africa’s second largest gold producer, filed a lawsuit in a US court claiming the company enslaved black workers and exposed them to dangerous mine conditions and toxic substances.
The UN’s World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday it expected a cholera epidemic in southern Iraq, where 17 cases have already been registered in two hospitals, and warned that other infectious waterborne diseases could break out.
The Pentagon claimed yesterday to have found a mobile biological weapons laboratory in Iraq, and large quantities of documents on Saddam Hussein’s development of other weapons.
‘Saddam tape’ calls for secret war
For many months horror stories have been emerging from Zimbabwe about the suffering inflicted by President Robert Mugabe. Newspapers have been filled with accounts of political corruption, rapes and beatings. But behind these stories lie the daily hardships felt by the capital’s 1,7-million people.
Mounting pressure on Mugabe
Zim ‘falsehood’ law struck down