Graeme Smith is surely aware that his honeymoon period as South African cricket captain is rapidly coming to a close but the relaxed, confident figure he is cutting in England would hardly suggest it.
For the first time in history, the organisers of the Berg River Canoe Marathon have been forced into making dramatic changes to the course for the four day classic canoeing race, as a result of the drought gripping the Western Cape.
Iran may have struck a more cooperative tone over the al-Qaeda suspects in its custody in return for France cracking down on exiled opposition groups, Tehran newspapers reported this week.
South Africa is proof that the image of Africa so often portrayed as beset with chaos and failure is a travesty of the truth, French Foreign Minister Dominique De Villepin said on Thursday.
South Africa’s Director General of Environmental Affairs and Tourism said on Thursday that the department has decided that the environmental impact of the proposed pebble bed modular nuclear reactor (PBMR) at Koeberg and the manufacturing and transportation of nuclear fuel to and from Pelindaba, is acceptable from an environmental impact point of view, subject to specific conditions.
State lawyers on Thursday closed their case in the marathon treason trial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and two senior party officials, while defence lawyers said they would apply to have the charges dismissed.
Liberia’s health minister on Thursday reported that between 200 and 300 civilians killed and 1 000 wounded in a two-day battle for the country’s besieged capital, and morgue workers described mortuaries filled to overflowing.
The South African Competition Commission expressed its support for the broad based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Bill during its submissions to the Trade and Industry Parliamentary Portfolio Committee hearings in Cape Town on Thursday.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has rejected the auditor general’s allegations against one of its members of Parliament (MPs) — and repeated its call on the South African Parliament to set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the allegations surrounding the arms deal.