South African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota passionately urged the Zimbabwean Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) "to go back to the talks" with the ruling Zanu-PF government in that troubled country. He has also urged the MDC not to go to the streets in protest.
Thirty years ago, virtually none of Thailand’s hill tribes’ women were snared in the country’s thriving sex trade. Now they are flooding the brothels and sex-karaoke bars.
For Madiba, 22-year-old Emily Dichaba, an athlete who will represent South African at the Special Olympics in Ireland, is determined to bring back all the gold she can.
A resolution to the dispute between South African steel producer Iscor (ISC) and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is in sight following the union’s decision to withdraw its demand for back pay.
The road from Lawley to Lenasia is ordinary: it is cut by a railway track and flanked by a squatter camp and a brick factory. But just past the factory off a dirt road and forgotten by the rest of the world, a crumbling wall serves as informal monument to
an idea that changed the world.
Former Western Cape MEC Freda Adams told the Cape High Court on Wednesday that she broke down in tears after Peter Marais told he she was ”not a woman”.
The first of two Nasa rovers is safely on its way to Mars, but the riskiest part of its seven-month journey to the Red Planet lies ahead, as some humiliating failures have shown all too well.
Zimbabwe’s government and opposition should sit down and solve their differences, taking a lesson from the way South Africa eased its way out of the apartheid era, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday.
Zimbabwe’s ‘self defeating repression’
The cost of the government’s controversial arms package deal has drastically shrunk because of the stronger rand, an economist said on Wednesday.
Political leaders attending the World Economic Forum’s Africa summit on Wednesday warned that global powers, such as the United States, would ignore Africa to their own detriment.