If we had not been misinformed about the alternatives to the current fossil fuels SA would have been a world leader in providing clean and safe energy to all our people, and also in exporting indigenous technologies
Talks between the MDC and Zanu-PF have broken down – now negotiators are looking to their leaders for help, ahead of next month’s Group of Eight (G8) summit in Canada
Southern Africa has endured widespread food shortages before, but the situation now is far worse partly because of an increase in disease as a result of famished peasants are eating tree stems, sawdust and wild leaves
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had advance warning of last month’s coup attempt from the secretary general of Opec, Ali Rodriguez, allowing him to prepare an extraordinary plan that saved both his government and his life
Ministers from eight Commonwealth countries are due to meet in a safari lodge in northern Botswana Friday to discuss the situation in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe won re-election in March in a disputed poll.
The cardinal of Los Angeles, the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the United States, covered up the case of a confessed paedophile priest for 16 years.
Chances are remote that the tale of Fanie Olivier will become the South African byword for resistance to bureaucratic tyranny – in the way that the story of William Tell came to represent Swiss defiance of an unjust order
Michael Woerfel likes Italian food. That much is clear from an expenses schedule attached to the state’s case against him and Tony Yengeni.
A policeman and three suspected robbers were killed in a shootout after a high speed chase north of Durban on Thursday. This brings the number of policemen killed since Saturday to at least four.
An alarming rise in the ratio of boys among newborns in China suggests that increasing numbers of female foetuses are being aborted by parents intent on having a male child. More than 116 male births were recorded for every 100 female births