The Wits medical student who was raped at the Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital has laid a charge against her alleged assailant, police said on Friday. uperintendent Thembi Nkwashu said the student gave a statement to the police late on Thursday afternoon and laid a charge of rape.
The case against one of the men accused of being behind the African National Congress hoax email saga was postponed in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Muziwendoda Kunene, wearing a white suit, appeared briefly in court where his new lawyer asked for another postponement.
<i>Gandhi My Father</i> signals an intensification of trade and cultural links between India and South Africa on an unprecedented scale, writes Matthew Krouse.
Riason Naidoo reviews <i>Gandhi My Father</i>, which is based on the private and troubled relationship between the public figure of the Mahatma and his anonymous son Harilal.
Peter Bradshaw pays tribute to the late Ingmar Bergman.
One of the most notoriously homophobic figures in reggae and dancehall music has agreed to stop singing violently anti-gay lyrics, writes Alexandra Topping.
South African central bank chief Tito Mboweni warned on Friday inflationary pressures were ”more worrying”, hinting interest rates may have to rise again in Africa’s biggest economy. The Reserve Bank governor told Parliament’s finance committee that rates were the only way to rein in inflation.
Russia symbolically staked its claim to billions of dollars worth of oil and gas reserves in the Arctic Ocean on Thursday as two mini-submarines reached the sea bed more than four kilometres beneath the North Pole. The two craft planted a one metre-high titanium Russian flag on the underwater Lomonosov ridge.
Veteran journalist Joe Thloloe has been appointed the new press ombudsman. The announcement was made in Johannesburg on Friday at the first meeting of the Press Council, set up to administer the office of the ombudsman and appeal panel. Thloloe is a former editor-in-chief of the South African Broadcasting Corporation television news.
The once secret organisation that led South Africa’s white Afrikaner minority out of the political and economic doldrums into decades of oppressive rule is battling to find a niche for itself. Following its pursuit of exclusive white interests, the Afrikanerbond is finding it hard to justify its past or find a foothold in the present.