More than 200 HIV/Aids lay counsellors marched on the Gauteng health department offices in Johannesburg on Friday complaining that they had not been paid since April. The community-based counsellors also said they were unhappy with the amount of the monthly R1Â 000 stipend they were supposed to get from the department.
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.
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.
One of the most notoriously homophobic figures in reggae and dancehall music has agreed to stop singing violently anti-gay lyrics, writes Alexandra Topping.
Peter Bradshaw pays tribute to the late Ingmar Bergman.
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.
<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.
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.
Chinese police have arrested hundreds of people in western China after residents there called for the return of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, reports Friday. Soldiers and police were dispatched to Lithang after locals gathered on Wednesday to celebrate a traditional horse festival.
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.