A rare Golden Langur has been born in captivity for the first time in Vietnam, increasing by one the population of arguably the most-endangered monkey on earth, environmentalists said on Friday.
More than 1 000 cattle in prime ranching areas south of Harare have been infected with foot-and-mouth disease, threatening vital beef exports, state radio reported on Friday.
Anglican Archbiship Emeritus Desmond Tutu said on Friday that without someone like Nelson Mandela the new South Africa may not have got past first base.
South African trade union Solidarity on Friday distanced itself from a looming strike in the mining industry called by the National Union of Mineworkers.
As the unprecedented publication-day sales of Clinton’s memoir of her White House years demonstrates, the private lives of political figures still make headlines, according to Elaine Showalter.
British police searching for a missing Ministry of Defence adviser on weapons of mass destruction, named by the government as the possible source for a disputed news report on Iraqi arms, said on Friday they had found a male body.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born during the First World War on July 18, 1918, at Mvezo on the banks of the winding Mbashe River, also known as the Bashee.
South African Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya announced on Friday that 3,4-million children were now registered to receive a R160 a month child support grant — for the poorest of the poor.
Metrorail chief executive Honey Mateya says the state urban rail transport authority backed concessioning of this sector "four or five years ago" but this had been put on hold by Transnet and the South African government to attend to backlogs.
A number of South African gold and coal mining firms are looking to avoid a threatened strike by the National Union of Mineworkers (Num), with the outstanding issues being the level of wage increases, retirement fund contributions and job grading.