Efforts to balance Johannesburg’s infrastructural and economic development got into full swing this week when the city unveiled its Spatial Development Framework.
A truck driver who became an American citizen three years ago has admitted his involvement in an al-Qaeda terrorist plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.
A journalist has filed assault charges against Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Botswana who he says attacked him over an article he wrote, police said on Thursday.
Hundreds of Jewish settlers wrestled yesterday with Israeli soldiers who were tearing down the first inhabited outpost in the West Bank to be removed in line with the demands of the American-led road map to peace.
Europe’s failure to share the burden of hosting the huge refugee populations faced by developing countries is shameful and pound-foolish, the head of the UN’s refugee agency says today.
The fugitive heir to the Max Factor cosmetics empire, Andrew Luster, was living a modest life in a Mexican seaside resort for about a month before he was caught by a team led by legendary bounty hunter, Duane ”Dog” Chapman this week.
Shell has bowed to pressure from Tony Blair and human rights campaigners by publishing details of payments made to the Nigerian government, which amounted to -million last year.
Recent weeks have seen the SABC at its most brazenly hypocritical. It called a press conference in order to try to bamboozle as many as it could about its proposals to assign its news content decisions to the corporation’s top officers, effectively removing editorial independence from its newsrooms.
South Africa’s support at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) this week for the controversial "Berlin Initiative" helped tip the vote in favour of protecting whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Divers have found at least 18 coelacanths on KwaZulu-Natal’s north coast — indicating that these ancient fish, which have been linked to human evolution, may be permanent residents along the African mainland.