Health Minister Alain Moka is leading a high-level delegation to the Department of Kelle, the Cuvette-Ouest Region of the Republic of Congo, to reassure residents of government’s efforts to overcome the Ebola haemorrhagic fever that broke out there almost one month ago.
African Union and Non-Aligned Movement countries serving on the United Nations’ Security Council must abide by their respective organisations’ views on Iraq rather than bow to pressure, Deputy Minister Aziz Pahad said on Wednesday.
South African President Thabo Mbeki has ruled out a commission of inquiry into allegations that Deputy President Jacob Zuma took a bribe in connection with the multi-billion rand arms deal.
Police drew up a photofit picture yesterday of the man they call the playing card killer, a gunman who they suspect has twice walked up to strangers in Madrid and shot them at point-blank range.
The newborn baby boy who was found in a black plastic bag outside a panel beating premises in Marabastad on Saturday morning has died, Pretoria police said on Tuesday.
The Pretoria Regional Court will hand down judgement next Wednesday in the bail application of Johan ”Lets” Pretorius who was arrested in September last year for his alleged role in a right-wing plot to overthrow the government.
A state witness in the treason trial of Zimbabwe’s opposition leader testified on Tuesday a tape recorder hidden in her purse malfunctioned during a key portion of a London meeting about what she said was a plot to kill President Robert Mugabe.
South African trade union the National Union of Mine workers on Tuesday spoke out against the government’s move to sell off 30% of state-run electricity utility Eskom with 10% earmarked for empowerment interests.
The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund on Tuesday denied having received a donation from Swiss company Nestle or that it even had an association or a relationship with the company.
A Cape High Court judge late on Tuesday night ordered that the new Immigration Act, the bulk of which was supposed to come into force at midnight, should be put on hold.