The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Thursday called upon all its members and the South African public to join the peaceful mass protests planned before and during the visit of US President George Bush to South Africa next week.
Lawyers for Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday applied to have a petition heard challenging President Robert Mugabe’s victory in polls last year.
The Democratic Alliance is invoking the Promotion of Access to Information Act in an attempt to force the health ministry to release the Antenatal HIV Prevalence Survey for 2002.
Irish police arrested a Nigerian man on Wednesday in connection with discovery of the dismembered torso of a boy found floating in the Thames in London in 2001.
A physically-disabled cigarette and beer salesman branded an internet dissident has been detained by Chinese police for threatening state security, a human rights group said on Thursday.
Ten years’ work and 8 000km of travel have gone into researching and writing a new book that focuses on the "literature of place", writes Denise Rack Louw.
With her wild stage antics, her defiant lyrics and rock-doused attitude, Karen Zoid is giving Afrikaans music a new pop identity. She talks to Jason Curtis and Nadia Neophytou about Afrikaners, rock’n’roll and her new album.
The opening of Cape Town’s International Convention Centre provided a platform for a new form of dialogue, writes Nadia Neophytou.
The US government and private technology experts warned that hackers plan to attack thousands of websites on Sunday in a loosely coordinated ”contest” that could disrupt internet traffic.
Burundi’s second largest Hutu rebel group, the National Liberation Forces, has vowed to never negotiate with the government and to wage war without mercy.