Vusi Mahlasela, one of Mamelodi’s proudest exports, is embracing a growing global audience, writes Jason Curtis.
Three African leaders arrived in Zimbabwe on Monday for talks with President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, aimed at resolving the country’s political and economic crises.
More than a million residents of Nairobi have gone without water since Sunday after floods destroyed a dam in the centre of the country and parts of the capital were expected to be without water for days
A senior member of Mozambique’s ruling party has been placed in 10-day quarantine after returning home from China, the country worst-hit by the Sars epidemic.
A female student was killed during a struggle in a Rhodes University hostel room on Monday. Students at the hostel heard a quarrel and later a warden found two students, a man and a woman, in a pool of blood.
Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, has urged shareholders to rise up against greedy executives, in a searing weekend attack on rising pay and the business practices that grew out of the dotcom boom.
The final death toll of the Workers’ Day bus disaster in the eastern Free State is 51, provincial MEC for public works, roads and transport Sekhopi Malebo confirmed on Sunday.
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and president-elect Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in Harare early on Monday for crucial talks with President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Too many countries in East Asia and the Pacific continue to fail their children despite dramatic economic growth in parts of the region, the United Nations children’s fund Unicef said on Monday.
North Korea threatened on Monday to scuttle all nuclear talks unless the United States responds positively to the North’s offer to dismantle it nuclear programme in exchange for economic and diplomatic payoffs.