The Legal Aid Board has come to the assistance of a 13-year-old boy who was apparently infected with HIV during a blood transfusion at the Pretoria Academic Hospital last year.
The stage was set last night for a final, climactic showdown over Iraq at the UN next week, after a British proposal to set Saddam Hussein an ultimatum of March 17 only deepened the divide in the security council.
Two of Osama bin Laden’s sons have been caught after a shoot-out in southern Afghanistan, according to reports last night from Pakistan.
Lord Attenborough’s role as a Unicef ambassador came under scrutiny yesterday after he appeared to try to persuade Nelson Mandela to accept a charitable donation from the controversial food giant Nestlé in exchange for a photo opportunity.
There’s an old saying that goes: "When elephants fight, the grass suffers". Now that might be true in many walks of life, but in the newspaper world, Lemmer has found, when elephants fight the grass tends to giggle
Many people were touched by Mr Kgalema Motlanthe’s explanations as to why the African National Congress not only tolerates but actually relishes having people like fraudster Tony Yengeni in its ranks. The presence of such liars and cheats strengthens the party’s ability to be democratic in giving succour to them
Nationwide mass action sponsored by Swaziland’s labour organisations to protest against government policies did not achieve its goal of shutting down the country completely
The Bolivian government is considering a plan to allow more farmers to grow coca legally. The country’s anti-drugs laws already allow for a 12 000ha area of legal coca plantations north of La Paz to satisfy demand for its traditional uses
The JSE Securities Exchange exhibited a mood of defiant optimism on Tuesday morning when Telkom was floated on the bourse.
President Thabo Mbeki and other regional leaders’ handling of the Mugabe regime is not opening political space in Zimbabwe