Tokyo Sexwale says that by standing for ANC deputy president despite slim chances, he was honouring democracy within the ruling party.
The Federale Vryheidsparty says two members have been arrested for high treason after reports of a planned attack on the ANC’s Mangaung conference.
Mourners in Newtown, Connecticut, headed for the first two of 20 funerals of the schoolchildren shot dead by 20-year-old Adam Lanza.
A wave of attacks targeting both Iraq’s security forces and civilians killed 35 people, in a second day of deadly violence.
As health officials insist on reaching a ‘near-zero’ malaria deaths target by 2015, attempts to fight the illness have drastically slowed down.
Kgalema Motlanthe is going for broke. He has declined nomination for the post of deputy president, and will contend only for president.
As Madiba remains hospitalised after undergoing surgery, the anti-apartheid leader has missed the return of his grandson from an initiation ceremony.
The four people arrested for suspected acts of terrorism were not linked to the ANC’s conference in Mangaung, Free State police have said.
Boss, which begins on M-Net Series at the end of this month, was one of the most surprising shows on television when it premiered in the US last year.
A car bomb has exploded at a compound owned by a US-based construction company, killing at least one person and wounding 15.