SOUTH Africa will host an annual benefit concert at which renowned African musicians will help raise funds for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The all-night TeleFood 2002 concert at a Johannesburg soccer stadium on March 2, to be broadcast worldwide, will kick off an eight-month food and poverty awareness campaign, organisers said in a […]

FRANCE has struck a deal with Nigeria to borrow for 25 years three works of art which were put on display in a Paris museum after being illegally exported, Culture Minister Catherine Tasca said Wednesday. The three statues from the Nok and Sokoto traditions were found by mining prospectors in the early 1990s, exported without […]

ONE hundred of the world’s top photographers will descend upon Africa on February 28 to take photographs of the vast continent to be published in a book entitled “A Day in the Life of Africa,” organisers said on Thursday. From the Congo river to Morocco and Rwanda, the photographers will attempt to capture a day […]

WOMEN and Men Against Child Abuse on Wednesday reiterated its call for a register of child sex offenders. It said in a statement the register would help protect children as many abusers gained access to minors through careers that involved working closely with children. They were commenting after the recent court appearance of 27-year-old Allan […]

Johannesburg | Saturday The Department of Trade and Industry’s representative in the arms deal negotiations, Vanan Pillay, has been found guilty by a disciplinary committee of contravening the public service’s code of conduct. The DTI on Friday concluded its internal disciplinary hearing against Pillay, who allegedly received a R57 000 discount on a Mercedes-Benz from […]

TWO men were arrested on Thursday after police discovered a dagga field with 10 000 plants valued at R300 000 in a rural homestead at Tsomo, Queenstown hours earlier, Eastern Cape police said. Sergeant Namhla Mdleleni said the two men, aged 27 and 30, were arrested following a tip-off from the community. ”One kilogram of […]

One of South African’s most renowned female jazz musicians, Grace Senne has passed away, SABC radio news reported on Wednesday. Grace Senne, the co-founder of the African Maroon Women’s Jazz band died in Johannesburg. Mama Grace, as she was affectionately known, founded the country’s first female jazz band. She was one of the few women […]

TEXAS researchers claimed a cloning first on Thursday, with the first successful genetic reproduction of a cat in the form of a kitten called cc. The two-month-old kitty was born to her surrogate mother, Allie, in December last year, but veterinarians at Texas A and M University delayed announcing it until DNA results could confirm […]

British pensioners living in South Africa are taking the British government to court to force it to pay out more than R64-billion in frozen increments to British pensioners living in the Commonwealth, the Citizen newspaper reported on Friday. It said the SA Alliance of British Pensioners (SAABP), representing about 36 000 pensioners in southern Africa […]