The International Red Cross on Friday expressed disgust at the disastrous humanitarian situation in Liberia, saying it had rarely seen an African country that had been as neglected as the war-ravaged west African state.
Bill Bryson takes on the whole universe — remember, you read it here first! John Waller discovers the deeper meanings of life according to Bill Bryson.
An attempt by the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce’s (Nafcoc) deputy president, Vincent Phaahla, to obtain an urgent High Court interdict to prevent a Nafcoc Federal Council meeting from discussing his disciplinary case on Thursday, has failed.
South African national lottery ticket sales rose from R88,4-million in 1999/2000 to R3,77-billion in 2002/03, according to Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin.
Zimbabwe’s High Court on Friday upheld treason charges against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai over claims he plotted to kill President Robert Mugabe.
President Thabo Mbeki says everything necessary needs to be done to speedily advance the emancipation of South Africa’s women, as well as those on the rest of the continent.
South Africa’s former ruling party, the New National Party, says the time has come for the Human Sciences Research Council to study the underlying causes of escalating violence against women and children in the country.
Health and safety experts from the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) and journalists were locked out of the Beaconfield Sewage Plant in Kimberley on Thursday, Samwu members said.
The latest mammalian baby clone is a pretty Halflinger foal called Prometea, born to an Italian research institution on May 28. It took more than 800 embryos and nine would-be surrogate mother mares to arrive at just one foal, which may or may not lead a normal life: it will take a couple of decades to discover the answer to that.
While playing "De Lawd" isn’t a new role, it is one shared by only a few. In Bruce Almighty, Morgan Freeman steps into His big shoes, writes Scott Hughes in London.