Oprah Winfrey’s book club recommendations still count for more than salacious presidential details when it comes to sales, writes Gary Younge from New York.
The South African Post Office denied on Thursday that it was technically insolvent saying ”(such) reports are far from the truth and represent a serious deviation from the facts”.
The Zimbabwe government has given the opposition mayor of Harare until Thursday evening to leave his mayoral mansion and give up other perks of his job, a newspaper said on Thursday.
Nine long-term prisoners who want to have their own spending money in jail had an urgent application for their case to be heard allowed by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday.
Visiting a country with the world’s highest Aids infection rate, US President George Bush said on Thursday that the disease is ”the deadliest enemy Africa has ever faced” and promised that the United States will help meet the challenge.
Four Kosovan Albanian children who survived a Serbian massacre and were given the right to live in Manchester went to court in Belgrade yesterday to tell their story to a war crimes trial.
Read the full transcript of teh meeting between President Thabo Mbeki and President George Bush on July 9, 2003.
The room occupancy rate and the bed occupancy rate of hotels in South Africa for May 2003 increased by 0,2% and 0,9% respectively, compared with May 2002, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday.
Jason Curtis speaks to one of the United States’s finest wordsmiths, poet Ursula Rucker, who appears at this year’s Urban Voices festival.