Zimbabwe’s opposition gave the government one month to return to talks on the country’s spiralling political and economic crisis, threatening mass demonstrations if the discussions did not resume.
Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest car maker, is hoping the new fifth version of its best-selling Golf model, unveiled on Monday, will steer the group back into the fast lane of the world’s car makers.
At least 40 people were killed and more than 125 injured in a series of explosions in Mumbai on Monday morning. One was near the Gateway of India, a famous Mumbai seafront landmark and tourist attraction.
Forensic experts have been toiling away for a month to try to uncover the horrors of what is apparently the largest mass grave dating from the Bosnian war. The grave is believed to contain about 500 bodies of civilians from the Crni Vrh region.
The Scorpions will this week present Parliament with a report on alleged gifts received by Deputy President Jacob Zuma during this week, while political parties — including the DA — are calling for Zuma’s resignation.
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Authorities struggled to evacuate people as Hurricane Ignacio roared along the coast of Baja California on Monday, bending palm trees with winds topping 150kph and lashing resorts with sheets of rain.
The South African government has signalled its intention, through new legislation currently before Parliament, to cap the number of retail petrol outlets based on consumption levels. It is estimated that about 2 000 of the existing 5 000 outlets are already unsustainable.
Outspoken Rastafarian paralegal Gareth Prince wants the African Human Rights Commission to tamper with a South African Constitutional Court judgement that decrees the use of dagga to be a criminal act, even for ardent Rastafarians.
The Boeremag treason trial was postponed in the Pretoria High Court on Monday for some of the accused to prepare an urgent application to stop prison authorities from ”torturing” them with loud music.
Talk about a dead man walking. Robert King somehow sprung himself out of what would have been effectively a life sentence in the American penitentiary system, and has lived to tell the tale. Others are not so fortunate.