Asian and African ministers are expected to focus on boosting economic cooperation between their mostly poor countries when they meet in the Indonesian town of Bandung on Tuesday.
Beloved entertainer Bob Hope, who died on Monday, was still cracking jokes as he approached his 100th birthday in May.
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday that the World Bank report on the impact of Aids in South Africa was unhelpful.
Four highly endangered baby gorillas that were illegally smuggled through South Africa en route from Nigeria to Malaysia are due to be returned to the Pretoria zoo to live out the rest of their lives.
The statue of former Transvaal president Paul Kruger is to be removed from the Kruger National Park, park authorities said on Monday.
It was more expensive for the government to let teachers with HIV/Aids die than to provide them with anti-retroviral drugs, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Monday.
Mining magnate Roger Kebble’s application to have charges of fraud, under the Companies Act, provisionally withdrawn against him was rejected in the Johannesburg Commercial Crimes Court on Monday.
Justice Minister Penuell Maduna had not approached the Johannesburg-based Sunday Times about questions from crime investigators to Deputy President Jacob Zuma the newspaper published at the weekend, editor Mathatha Tsedu said on Monday.
Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota and former African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Tony Yengeni will know their fate on Tuesday when their party’s disciplinary committee announces its decisions.
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