South African Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana on Thursday condemned trade unions that use racism in order to mobilise workers. The minister was agreeing with concerns raised by Fedusa General Secretary Chez Milani over the weekend regarding the activities of the all-white Solidarity Union.
Corporate America bowed to the growing power of the gay rights movement yesterday when the country’s largest private employer banned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi showed his true colours when he likened a German member of the European Parliament to a lowly Nazi concentration camp guard, an outraged European press charged on Thursday.
Not the movie of the week: Dumb and Dumberer is not funny. Not once. Not ever, writes Danny Leigh.
The Democratic Alliance is invoking the Promotion of Access to Information Act in an attempt to force the health ministry to release the Antenatal HIV Prevalence Survey for 2002.
Lawyers for Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday applied to have a petition heard challenging President Robert Mugabe’s victory in polls last year.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Thursday called upon all its members and the South African public to join the peaceful mass protests planned before and during the visit of US President George Bush to South Africa next week.
Irish police arrested a Nigerian man on Wednesday in connection with discovery of the dismembered torso of a boy found floating in the Thames in London in 2001.
A physically-disabled cigarette and beer salesman branded an internet dissident has been detained by Chinese police for threatening state security, a human rights group said on Thursday.
Ten years’ work and 8 000km of travel have gone into researching and writing a new book that focuses on the "literature of place", writes Denise Rack Louw.