Cuban President Fidel Castro has accused Russia of betraying Cuba by abandoning its bilateral commitments after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
The Jali Commission could not hear evidence on Thursday on a Grootvlei warder caught on videotape while selling a juvenile prisoner for sex to an adult inmate because he refused to attend the hearing.
The heir to one of Kenya’s biggest white-owned estates was charged on Thursday with the murder of a game warden on the family’s Rift Valley farm. Thomas Cholmondeley (37) scion of the most prominent British settler family in Kenya, pleaded not guilty to the fatal shooting of a plainclothes warden.
THE law on press freedom could face substantial change if the Constitutional Court allows a newspaper to appeal a ruling in politician Bantu Holomisa’s defamation case.
SOUTH Africa’s economic and social problems were serious but not insurmountable, former president FW de Klerk said on Wednesday.
AN elderly couple were tied up and stabbed to death in Meerdale south of Johannesburg.
FARMERS who think they can pull a fast one on the Department of Water Affairs beware.
ON average, suburban children’s performance at school is two years ahead of their township counterparts, Read Organisation national director Cynthia Hugo said on Friday.
ENVIRONMENT Minister Valli Moosa’s backing down on his plan to ban plastic shopping bags and instead set a new limit on their thickness, has been greeted with scepticism and a strike threat by the Congress of SA Trade Unions.
One million Cubans took to streets and squares around the country in a state-organised protest against the policies of US President George Bush.