The police must follow up all information reported to them, even if it appeared silly or ludicrous, Senior Superintendent Selby Bokaba said on Friday.
Members of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) in the Western Cape demonstrated on Friday outside the SABC offices in Sea Point, Cape Town, against the prevalence of blasphemous language broadcast by the public broadcaster.
Researchers at BirdLife International said on Friday they feared the Imperial Woodpecker, (Campephilus imperialis), was now extinct after an expedition to Mexico found no evidence of a resident population.
A pro-government Congolese militia — one of several factions in the Mai-Mai ethnic group — has retracted claims that South Africa is smuggling weapons into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in collusion with mercenaries.
US President George Bush arrived on Friday for a four-hour visit to Uganda, during which he will meet President Yoweri Museveni and Aids orphans.
A UN food agency warned on Friday that hundreds of thousands of people in Liberia are cut off from aid and risked starvation unless a peaceful solution to the country’s civil war is reached quickly.
Nelson Mandela unveiled a plaque to two anti-apartheid activists in London.
Nigeria’s ruling party on Friday is attempting to rectify a political crisis that broke out in the south-eastern Nigerian state of Anambra when the state’s governor was removed from office in what may have been an elaborate coup attempt.
Any US military role in Liberia will be ”very limited in duration and scope”, intended only to help west African peacekeepers get established there, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday.
It was unacceptable that, despite South Africa’s skills shortage, training bodies had failed to spend the R6-billion allocated to them over the past two years, the United Democratic Movement (UDM) said on Friday.