The safety and security ministry on Tuesday repeated its claim that vehicle hijackings had decreased over the past three years.
South Africans married under Islamic law came one step closer on Tuesday to having their unions legalised, with the release of proposed draft legislation to this effect.
Between 50 and 70 small boat fishermen staged a placard protest at Hout Bay harbour, on Cape Town’s Atlantic seaboard on Tuesday over the allocation of permits to fish for snoek.
Flagging support from international donors is threatening efforts to return thousands of West African child soldiers to civilian life, the United Nations Children’s Fund said on Tuesday.
A Jerusalem monument revered for centuries as a Jewish holy place was a Christian shrine in the fourth century, a recently deciphered inscription reveals, the Israeli Ha’aretz daily reported on Tuesday.
If you buy a movie ticket in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, it is likely you will be handed a condom, it was reported on Tuesday.
More than 3,5-million people have been left homeless by floods ravaging China, the International Federation of Red Cross said on Tuesday as it launched an emergency appeal for help.
The Democratic Alliance has given President Thabo Mbeki’s office ”a final opportunity” to provide documentation on a controversial Nigerian oil deal, DA minerals and energy spokesperson Ian Davidson said on Tuesday.
Government buildings, starting with the Union Buildings in Pretoria and Parliament in Cape Town, are to be made more energy-efficient.
A top Zimbabwean opposition member of Parliament was arrested on Tuesday soon after his party announced MPs would not walk out on President Robert Mugabe’s annual parliamentary opening speech.