Former president FW de Klerk has been subpoenaed to testify for the defence in the treason trial of 22 alleged members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation, an attorney said on Tuesday.
The head of the European parliament rejected on Tuesday ”lectures” from the United States about genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), and again blasted a US argument linking the issue to famine in Africa.
A political group drawn from the ethnic Lendu majority in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Ituri region is to set up shop again in Bunia, two months after a rival ethnic faction shot its way into power there.
Schoolchildren in the Highlands thought they were in for a magical time when the casting director for the latest Harry Potter film started searching for extras. But their headmaster had other ideas, writes Gerard Seenan.
The attention-seeking Demi Moore has signed on to play a villain in the big-screen Charlie’s Angels, writes John Patterson.
CD of the week: Radiohead: Hail to the Thief is not a bad record, but it’s not startlingly different and fresh or packed with the anthemic songs that once made them the world’s biggest band, writes Alexis Petridis.
British army experts in Northern Ireland disarmed two homemade bombs overnight on Monday near the scene of attacks which targetted black South Africans, police said on Tuesday.
Belgian archaeologists have for the first time used magnetic survey techniques to unearth the remains of an ancient Egyptian tomb complex at Deir el-Bersha in Minya, 300 kilometres south of Cairo.
From Tuesday, health care services at public facilities will be offered free of charge to disabled people, Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said.
The Zimbabwean prosecution authority’s withdrawal of corruption charges against a retired judge was welcomed by the South African legal fraternity on Tuesday.