Eastern Cape officials have embarked on a clean-up campaign of a different kind; admitting homeless people to mental institutions.
The New National Party called on Friday for an indaba on criminals’ constitutional rights and balancing these rights with the rights of crime victims.
Few of the Americans running Iraq are as frank about their ”mission” to bring freedom to the world as the barrel-chested former New York police chief Bernard Kerik.
Germany’s most flamboyant politician hurtled 4 000 metres to his death yesterday as the police searched his home for evidence of tax evasion and fraud.
An advance party of French troops has arrived in this north-eastern corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to prepare the ground for the arrival of an European Union-led force intended to stabilise the region after hundreds were killed in more than a week of tribal fighting.
Last week the Mail & Guardian revealed how a lucrative Nigerian crude oil contract, allocated in 1999 to ”the Republic of South Africa” after lobbying by President Thabo Mbeki, was scooped by a private company registered in the Cayman Islands. However, responses to the exposé leave much to be answered.
Oil scandal rocks SA
Agreement on the Growth and Development Summit went to the wire on Thursday as business, labour and the government tried to put the final touches to a pact binding them to a set of measures to kick-start growth and employment.
President Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo, Africa’s longest serving ruler, has won a further five years in power in an election denounced by the opposition as being riddled with fraud.
Women who wolf down steak and chips, pasta, salad, chocolate and other favourite foods while they are pregnant may be expecting a boy rather than a girl, a study says.
Zimbabwe braced for bloody confrontation on Friday after the opposition renewed calls for supporters to march to demand President Robert Mugabe step down, and the government vowed to crush the protests.