Visiting Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim on Wednesday wound up meetings with South African officials ahead of an expected visit by newly elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Researchers have found two species of beetle to be a potent weapon in Africa’s fight against water hyacinths, an aquatic plant indigenous to Brazil that has become a devastating superweed.
This weekend hip-hoppers in the country’s two big centres welcome Blackalicious, an outfit that will be riding on a different current to other big-name visitors who have preceded them, writes Nadia Neophytou.
Two of the world’s finest trumpeters descend on Johannesburg this weekend, writes Struan Douglas.
<b>Movie of the week:</b> In a series of short but telling scenes, <i>Pollock</i> shows how Jackson Pollock’s turbulent life and art intertwine, writes Shaun de Waal.
The collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime has left the Al-Luaibis and middle class families like them struggling to survive in a country they barely recognise.
Many small South African wine exporters could be forced to shut down their operations entirely if the exchange rate of the rand does not weaken within the next six months.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has called the overall cereal harvest prospects in southern Africa "generally favourable" with the exceptions of Zimbabwe, parts of Swaziland and southern Mozambique.
The UN’s World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday it expected a cholera epidemic in southern Iraq, where 17 cases have already been registered in two hospitals, and warned that other infectious waterborne diseases could break out.
A former employee of Gold Fields Ltd., South Africa’s second largest gold producer, filed a lawsuit in a US court claiming the company enslaved black workers and exposed them to dangerous mine conditions and toxic substances.