Rebels have ambushed trucks belonging to the United Nations’s World Food Programme, which were delivering food to hungry people in the remote Karamoja region of north eastern Uganda. Six WFP employees, three drivers and their helpers are still unaccounted for.
The United States on Friday banned the political wing of the Iranian opposition group People’s Mujahedeen, froze its assets and moved to close down its offices in the US. This move against the People’s Mujahadeen follows a similar crackdown on the group in France.
The trafficking of children, in effect child slavery, is more widespread in Africa than previously realised, a new study by Unicef has found. Poverty has been the driving force in child slavery, but Aids is also taking its toll.
The SACP is discussing fielding candidates under its own banner in next year’s election and will be debated at the SACP’s central committee meeting this weekend. The party is planning to assert its independence from the ANC.
South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma says his association with Durban businessman Schabir Shaik "spans more than 20 years" and he trusts the man — who is at the centre of a Scorpions investigation into alleged wrongdoing during the country’s arms deal — "completely".
The British High Commissioner in South Africa Ann Grant officially handed over the keys of the British High Commission building in the parliamentary precinct in Cape Town on Friday morning — and it will now become part of the parliamentary complex.
The Cape Town Regional Court on Friday refused to order the withdrawal of corruption charges against New Labour Party leader Peter Marais and former deputy social development minister David Malatsi.
Iscor employees were told last year to destroy documents that might point to its polluting ground and runoff water in Vanderbijlpark, the newspaper Beeld reported on Friday.
The trade union Solidarity signed a wage agreement with energy giant Sasol on Friday, ending a three-day strike that involved over 1 000 workers and much acrimony.