Missionary work in KwaZulu-Natal these days is a far cry from handing out bibles and preaching to rural villagers and has adapted to offer desperately needed services to the community — such as flying doctors to remote clinics each week.
Most staff members at the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court have come out in strong support of their chief magistrate, who they say has been the target of an anti-government, white minority group of magistrates who oppose transformation.
Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza and her Director General, Bongiwe Njobe, have contradicted each other over a controversial proposal to re-regulate agricultural marketing.
A Xhosa initiation school graduate, on condition of anonymity, breaks the silence surrounding this tradition: <i>’Ndiyindoda!</i>" I shout on cue. I am a man. In split seconds the <i>ingcibi</i>, a traditional surgeon, crouching between my thighs severs my foreskin.
President George W Bush this week gave a vote of confidence to Vice-President Dick Cheney, who faces an investigation into his business practices.
For a secret organisation hunted by the intelligence services of the most powerful nations on Earth, al-Qaida has a remarkably public face — on a website run by the Centre for Islamic Studies and Research.
British scientific researchers have demonstrated for the first time that genetically modified DNA material from crops is finding its way into human gut bacteria, raising potentially serious health questions.
Once, in the heyday of Hollywood, the evidence of screen success was a soft-top pink Cadillac. Now it is a far smaller — and not necessarily pink — bundle of joy that, like the oversized car, can be easily purchased and driven straight back to the Los Angeles mansion: an adopted baby.
South Africa’s national municipal strike is nearing its end, but the African National Congress may be the worst long-term casualty of the workers’ actions.
A three-month-old baby is the latest victim of Mpumalanga’s crumbling health system. She died of an unspecified chest ailment on Wednesday night while being rushed 300km for a simple chest x-ray.