With the Fifa Confederations Cup just days away, views are mixed as to whether the World Cup curtain-raiser will drive football fans into Soweto.
Every night, John Lepota heads to the communal TV room at his mineworkers compound to faithfully check the latest platinum price on the evening news.
A few steps from a market, two lanterns swung from a pagoda which promises friendship between China and Mozambique will outlast ”heaven and earth”.
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/ 21 January 2009
When three rotting crocodile carcasses were spotted in a remote corner of the Kruger National Park, alarm bells started ringing for scientists.
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/ 11 January 2009
Prince Jelom has sold eggs, carried bags and pushed trolleys to survive life as a 13-year-old on the run from Zimbabwe’s spectacular collapse.
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/ 17 December 2008
President Kgalema Motlanthe refused on Wednesday to join calls for Robert Mugabe to quit.
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/ 20 October 2008
Twelve-year-old Jabu Shabalala issued an ultimatum to his mother while driving past a group of children on horseback in Soweto.
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/ 15 October 2008
Thabo Mbeki has little leverage to push Zimbabwe’s feuding parties to agreement, having lost his clout as leader of the region’s most powerful state.
Southern African leaders were to gather in Johannesburg on Sunday for the final day of a summit overshadowed by Zimbabwe’s crisis.
Zimbabwe’s main political rivals are in SA for a regional summit with negotiators expected to aim for a resolution to the country’s political crisis.