The KwaZulu-Natal government threw a R1,5-million party on the occasion of the handing over of the R5-million Ondini palace to King Goodwill Zwelithini last week.
Thousand of people began streaming into Grahamstown on Thursday for what the pundits say will be a bumper national arts festival.
South African wines have recorded one of their most impressive international results ever, winning five of the 20 trophies awarded at London’s International Wine and Spirits Competition and making the country by far the biggest winner on the show.
An upcoming African-American summit aims to bring black Americans and Africans together in building an oil industry that will one day replace the Mideast’s, former US Ambassador Andrew Young said on Wednesday.
Amnesty International says it is increasingly concerned about America’s attitude to human rights in the wake of this week’s arrest of five suspected al-Qaeda operatives and their secret removal from Malawi.
Several chinks in the armour of the international movement against chemical and biological weapons emerged from a seminar in Pretoria on Thursday.
"What is the fascination with the black body?" The question was asked by Nokuthula Skhosana, a South African delegate at the Sex and Secrecy Conference held at Wits University this week.
The New National Party lost the Stellenbosch by-election in the coloured working-class community of Cloetesville to the African National Congress this week, despite a hard campaign.
The Scorpions are going all-out in their corruption probe of Deputy President Jacob Zuma, new court documents reveal. However, a crucial piece of the investigative jigsaw — the evidence of Schabir Shaik, Zuma’s long-time comrade and financial adviser — depends on the outcome of a high-stakes legal battle set to begin on Friday June 27.
The delay in establishing the Pondoland National Park in the Eastern Cape is due to opposition from the government in that province, Environment Minister Valli Moosa said on Thursday.