Being given somebody else’s expensive 4X4 to play with is a bit like winning a mid-winter week-long holiday in the Berg and then finding that the beautiful roommate you’ve been allocated is your best friend’s wife.
A print by former president Nelson Mandela and some other valuable items relating to the Nobel Peace Prize winner were auctioned at the Sandton Hilton hotel on Tuesday night.
US author Susan Sontag was awarded the German book trade’s prestigious Peace Prize on Tuesday for her role as an ”intellectual ambassador” between the United States and Europe and for her human rights activism.
Johnny de Lange, the outspoken chairman of Parliament’s justice portfolio committee, on Tuesday poured more fuel on the fire in his row with some of the country’s top judges.
South African banking group Standard Bank Group and Liberty Group announced on Wednesday that they have entered into heads of agreement with a consortium led by Safika, which includes Nduna and Simeka and which will include a broad based empowerment trust, in terms of which the consortium will acquire a 25,2%
interest in Stanlib.
At least ten San (Bushmen) from Molapo, in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana, have been charged with entering a game reserve without a permit, Survival International, reported on Tuesday.
Antarctica is under threat from the growing number of summer tourists arriving to practise adventure sports, look at the wildlife and follow in the footsteps of Scott, Shackleton and other explorers, according to some environmentalists.
The new police chief of Khost, the Afghan town once synonymous with al-Qaeda, always knew he had a tough job on his hands. But Abdul Saboor wrongly assumed that no one would try to kill him on his first day at work.
Japan said yesterday that it was rethinking its role in the world whaling body and may even consider pulling out after losing a key battle with anti-whaling nations.