Bizarre details of misgovernance, reckless management and alleged misappropriation of funds in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature emerged this week with the release of a confidential auditor general’s report.
South Africans opposed to United States President George Bush’s visit to South Africa next Wednesday have been drawn by 300 social movements affiliated to the Anti-War Coalition into demanding that the African National Congress cancel the visit.
Airforce One hits the tarmac at Waterkloof airbase next Tuesday, the first pulpit on United States President George Bush’s evangelical five-stop African junket — his second trip to the continent, his first to South Africa.
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Seven initiates have died from complications, dehydration and assault in the Eastern Cape since the beginning of the circumcision season, the provincial health department said on Thursday.
A free Northern Sotho-English dictionary is now available on the internet, thanks to four people in Pretoria who are voluntarily giving their time and dipping into their own pockets to make it possible.
South Africa’s most well-known Iron Age site, Mapungubwe in Limpopo, was declared a World Heritage site by Unesco on Thursday.
South Africa’s Solidarity trade union on Friday announced that it was requesting that Minister of Labour Membathisi convene a national indaba where the problems that arose out of the implementation of affirmative action can be dealt with.
In what must rank as a warning to all footballers with short tempers who may think of playing in Oklahoma, a man has been jailed for life for spitting at a policeman.
Under the cold gaze of dozens of heavily armed US troops, the first visitors were allowed back into the Iraq museum yesterday to admire treasures from its collection of Mesopotamian art that escaped the looters who ransacked the building when Saddam Hussein’s regime collapsed.