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
Gail Smith joined the historic mission to return the remains of Saartjie Baartman to South Africa.
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) is a unique opportunity to improve governance and lure investment but its conception of government accountability will have to be redefined
Evidence before the Jali commission has highlighted the gross dereliction of leadership in prisons. ‘It’s like a plot in a movie script,” said East Coast Radio presenter Anisa Ussuph
John Matshikiza hits back at revisionist Indian scholar Dinesh D’Souza’s defence of colonialism. What if Shaka had been left alone to build an unprecedented empire on the southern tip of Africa?