My entire high school history curriculum comprised of European history; the World Wars and a yearly smidgen of South African history. The beginning of South African time always neatly coincided with 1652, the year of Van Riebeeck’s landing. For the longest time, I subconsciously believed that nothing of historical significance took place on the African continent (except of course in pseudo-Arabic Egypt) prior to colonialism.
World leaders and footballers on Tuesday rallied behind a FIFA-backed campaign to educate poor African children, as part of the legacy of the continent’s first football World Cup in 2010.
Rescue workers struggled on Tuesday to deliver rations to about five million victims of flooding triggered by torrential rains in southern India.
Bafana Bafana head coach Joel Santana’s days are getting darker.
Felipe Massa said he would not be rushing to make a return to Formula One as the Brazilian looks forward to test driving at Ferrari headquarters.
The global recession revealed its first hint of a silver lining when the International Energy Agency revealed that carbon emissions could fall in 2009
Big oil-producing nations denied a media report on Tuesday that Gulf Arab states were in talks to replace the dollar with a basket of currencies.
The judge in the trial of former advocate Cezanne Visser on Tuesday started the arduous task of summing up evidence in the lengthy trial.
Swiss authorities denied a request to release film director Roman Polanski on bail after he was arrested in September, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.
South Africans are more optimistic now than they were earlier this year, a market research company said on Tuesday.