South Africa’s church leaders will grapple this week with ways to bring African customs and culture into worship when they meet in Pretoria for the second South African Christian Leadership Assembly.

Smokers tired of the explicit warnings on cigarette boxes in South Africa can now order stickers to make their smoking experience a little less stressful.

Two years after the government passed a law forcing taxi operators to buy new vehicles, it has still not chosen the models they will be compelled to buy.

The Boeremag became notorious after a spate of bombings at the end of last year, but, according to the police, the tale of its alleged plot to take over South Africa and establish a Boer Republic begins much earlier.

South African hunters and safari operators are exploiting the Zimbabwean political situation as local authorities make a fast buck by allowing them to strip parts of the new Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park and its surrounds, including the farming district bordering South Africa.

Tim Partridge and Ron Clarke of the University of the Witwatersrand and Darryl Granger and Marc Caffee of Purdue University in the US have shaken the very bones of the palaeoanthropological world with a research article that appeared in this week’s issue of the prestigious US publication Science.