A female student was killed during a struggle in a Rhodes University hostel room on Monday. Students at the hostel heard a quarrel and later a warden found two students, a man and a woman, in a pool of blood.
Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, has urged shareholders to rise up against greedy executives, in a searing weekend attack on rising pay and the business practices that grew out of the dotcom boom.
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and president-elect Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in Harare early on Monday for crucial talks with President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
The final death toll of the Workers’ Day bus disaster in the eastern Free State is 51, provincial MEC for public works, roads and transport Sekhopi Malebo confirmed on Sunday.
Too many countries in East Asia and the Pacific continue to fail their children despite dramatic economic growth in parts of the region, the United Nations children’s fund Unicef said on Monday.
North Korea threatened on Monday to scuttle all nuclear talks unless the United States responds positively to the North’s offer to dismantle it nuclear programme in exchange for economic and diplomatic payoffs.
In a deal worth some R1,766-billion, two of South Africa’s leading gold mines, Harmony Gold Mining Company and ARMgold, have merged to create the country’s biggest black owned gold producer.
South African politicans involved in negotiating an end to the apartheid era began a three-day meeting outside Cape Town on Sunday to share their experience with leaders and academics involved in finding a peaceful solution to the conflict between Israeli and Palestinians.
‘When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain and you think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it,” wrote AA Milne in the House at Pooh Corner in 1928.
South African president Thabo Mbeki at the weekend launched the country’s major tourism event, Tourism Indaba 2003, by urging the world to visit Africa — and enjoy a "dream sabbatical".