Pro-junta thugs broke up a birthday rally by supporters of Burma democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday.
SACP stalwart and former journalist Brian Bunting died at his home in Rondebosch, Cape Town, on Wednesday at age 88, the party said on Thursday.
Suspended NPA head Vusi Pikoli is in negotiations with Mvelaphanda Holdings to be the company’s chief legal counsel, it was reported on Thursday.
Total mining production for the three months ended April 2008, after seasonal adjustment, decreased by 4,1% compared with the previous three months.
New Zealand cops were expected to speak to four English rugby players on Thursday about an allegation over an incident in a hotel room, a report said.
Heavy downpours on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast have broken four rainfall records, one of them dating back to 1964, and claimed at least four lives.
Bafana Bafana worked on their shooting on Wednesday following their 1-0 loss to Sierra Leone last Saturday in a game that they dominated.
World leaders joined forces on Wednesday calling on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to stop intimidating opponents ahead of a run-off vote.
Cape Judge President John Hlophe allegedly told a Constitutional Court judge that he was ”our last hope”, Business Day reported on Thursday.
A fragile truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas came into force in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.