Fifteen African would-be immigrants, including nine young children, have died after their boat was left adrift while trying to reach Spain.
A pregnant woman is beaten by guards as foreigners displaced by xenophobia stage a sit-in on the steps of Durban’s City Hall.
Zimbabwe’s ruling party and the opposition MDC will on Thursday begin preliminary talks on ending the political crisis, an opposition source says.
There is no other way to deal with rising food prices than to increase food production, Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Lulu Xingwana says.
The DA has called for a dedicated police unit to investigate the recent spate of automatic teller machine (ATM) bombings around the country.
The UK told Russia at the G8 summit that the issue of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko’s death ”would not be closed”.
South Africa’s manufacturing output growth slowed sharply in May, official data showed on Thursday.
The military, not President Robert Mugabe, is in charge of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Solidarity Forum said on Thursday.
South Africa is a nation of activists, but the Congress of South African Trade Unions seems to be barking up the wrong tree.
SA topped a global sex report on sexual protection against sexually transmitted infections and HIV/Aids, condom maker Durex said on Thursday.