South Africa’s most well-known Iron Age site, Mapungubwe in Limpopo, was declared a World Heritage site by Unesco on Thursday.
A free Northern Sotho-English dictionary is now available on the internet, thanks to four people in Pretoria who are voluntarily giving their time and dipping into their own pockets to make it possible.
Seven initiates have died from complications, dehydration and assault in the Eastern Cape since the beginning of the circumcision season, the provincial health department said on Thursday.
South Africa’s Solidarity trade union on Friday announced that it was requesting that Minister of Labour Membathisi convene a national indaba where the problems that arose out of the implementation of affirmative action can be dealt with.
In what must rank as a warning to all footballers with short tempers who may think of playing in Oklahoma, a man has been jailed for life for spitting at a policeman.
Astronomers have pinpointed a planetary system which resembles our own solar system, raising hopes of the discovery of Earth-like planets capable of bearing life.
Under the cold gaze of dozens of heavily armed US troops, the first visitors were allowed back into the Iraq museum yesterday to admire treasures from its collection of Mesopotamian art that escaped the looters who ransacked the building when Saddam Hussein’s regime collapsed.
The involvement of the Eastern Cape government as a major sponsor has contributed a new face to Africa’s premier arts festival.
Sadness, grief, relief and joy. These were some of the emotions which swept through a crowd of about 400 hundred people who marched down High Street waving wild olive branches as part of a mass "ceremony of reconciliation" at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown yesterday.