The Aids community believes the government has been given the political space to launch a national Aids treatment plan without being seen to be buckling under pressure, the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> understands.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo asked the national electoral agency on Thursday to investigate reports by Commonwealth observers that his re-election was marred by ballot-rigging.
President George Bush performed a triumphal and dramatic gesture to mark victory in the Iraq war, co-piloting a navy jet on to an aircraft carrier to underline his role as America’s commander-in-chief, and steel the nation for more combat in the years ahead.
The boss of the mafia family on which the Sopranos series is believed to be based was executed by one of his own soldiers because he was gay and they feared that if news got out the family would be ridiculed by the rest of the underworld.
The oldest profession finally caught up with its younger siblings yesterday with the flotation on the Australian stock market of the world’s first publicly listed brothel.
Hip-hop gets proudly South African with the release of a new compilation CD, writes Tumiso Mashaba.
Police divers began searching for more bodies in the Saulspoort Dam outside Bethlehem at 8am on Friday after Thursday’s horror bus accident. Bethlehem emergency services confirmed that 51 bodies had been recovered so far.
The South African rand was slightly weaker against major currencies in early trade on Friday on the back of comments made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday afternoon that the rand was likely to retreat to R8,40 to the dollar.
Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, is battling against a whispering campaign within his Zanu-PF party begun by some of his deputies and lieutenants vying to succeed him.
The sentence procedure in the case of Pretoria bus shooter De Wet Kritzinger is to start in the city’s high court on Friday.