A leading Nigerian opposition politician was shot dead at his home on Wednesday by unidentified gunmen, it what is the most high-profile killing yet in a troubled election campaign, police said.
Former African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Tony Yengeni’s decision to quit Parliament was the correct action to take, the ANC said on Wednesday.
Two senior citizens were arrested on Tuesday after they sped away from a roadblock in Soweto and then began shooting at police who chased them, representative Captain Mbazima Shiburi said.
The world will face a water crisis a few decades from now as population growth, pollution and climate change deprive billions of the most precious natural resource of all, a UN report warned on Wednesday.
A 27-year-old prostitute accused of murdering Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa’s brother, Rex, in November last year, reapplied for bail in the Pretoria Regional Court on Tuesday.
The United States on Tuesday launched a modest program to help bridge the digital divide between developing countries and the developed world.
Police arrested another 24 people at the World Cup cricket match being played in the western city of Bulawayo on Tuesday for allegedly violating security laws that outlaw public protest against President Robert Mugabe’s government, lawyers said.
The South African government is to transfer R170-million it donated to the UN’s World Food Programme to source food aid for southern Africa into the WFP’s bank account in South Africa by March 31.
South African Tourism has used interest in cricket to launch a 90 000 Indian rupee, 10-day ultimate luxury family holiday package targeting select upper income groups in India.
South African mine holding company Gencor and asbestos mining claimants could reach a settlement agreement by week end or at the latest the end of March, said Richard Spoor, a lawyer from legal firm Ntuli, Noble & Spoor, representing the claimants.