Zimbabwe’s main labour body marked International Workers’ Day on Thursday by warning thousands of supporters to brace themselves for confrontation, saying things would not improve without a change of regime.
President Thabo Mbeki launched a sophisticated attack on the trade union federation leadership and other left-wing critics — alternating praise with criticism on Workers’ Day on Thursday.
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.
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.
A former Transnet official is facing prosecution after he allegedly accepted bribes worth more than R1-million from a company that was part of a Siemens-led consortium which won a major contract from the parastatal.
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.
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.
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.
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.