Ben Maclennan

At midnight on Sunday, convicted cleric Allan Boesak will be a free man again.

Global food supply will be at risk if the world does not change the way it uses water, according to a report by two international research bodies released on Wednesday.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged rich nations to open up their markets to the developing world -- especially for agricultural products.

A former associate of German fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen has told the Desai commission that he wrote out a half-a-million rand cheque as a donation for the Democratic Alliance on Harksen's instructions.

Alleged German fraudster Jurgen Harksen has claimed that Gerald Morkel's lawyer phoned him on the eve of his latest round of testimony to the Desai Commission, urging him to stick to a particular version of events.