The department of correctional services is the worst employer of 2012 "with honours", trade union Solidarity has said.
Cheap rates and zen seating: spiritual tourism has taken off in South Korea, offering foreigner and tourists alike a taste of temple life.
The Vietnamese government’s war propaganda may no longer be enough to allay citizens’ anger over the ailing economy.
Darius Brubeck reflects on his father’s passing, as well as the jazz legend’s South African connections.
A majority of Egyptians have backed a controversial charter in a two-round referendum. This according to ruling Islamists and official media.
South Koreans have lit a Christmas tree-shaped tower near the tense border with North Korea for the first time in two years.
While millions of Japanese have protested the use of nuclear power, Japan handed an election landslide to the most pro-atomic option on offer.
Two first half goals, and a second half penalty helped Bafana Bafana to a 3-1 victory over Malawi at the Moses Mabhida Stadium.
Authorities have blamed a radical Islamist sect for twin suicide car bombings targeting two major mobile phone companies
in Nigeria.
A toad, nicknamed Jack B Nimble, has miraculously survived many weeks and thousands of kilometres of travel from China to South Africa.