A Johannesburg woman walked out of the Johannesburg High Court on Wednesday without a backward glance at her former lover, and co-accused, who was sentenced to 15 years for shooting her father dead at her request.

The Freedom of Expression Institute has added its voice to a call from the Congress of SA Trade Unions that SA Broadcasting Corporation news programming chairman Thami Mazwai resign for remarks made before Parliament’s communications portfolio committee last week.

South African Tourism’s Big Braai in London this week was smokin’ — some 17 000 Britons queued for meat and beer, which were sold out before the end of the day.

Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Thursday vehemently dismissed calls that he apologise for his comments regarding recently-pardoned former Apla cadre Dumisani Ncamazana.

SABC board chairman Vincent Maphai on Friday said the public broadcaster’s editorial independence was not in jeopardy.

President Thabo Mbeki on Friday night vowed that the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), due to start on Monday, would not be a mere talk shop.

SA Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande on Sunday said the party had nothing more publicly to say over comments by his deputy, Jeremy Cronin, on the African National Congress (ANC).

Suspended magistrate Mxolisi Matereke (42) broke down in the witness box while applying for bail in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.

SA Communist Party deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin accused the Mail&Guardian newspaper of unethical conduct on Friday for publishing without his permission a paper he wrote criticising the African National Congress.

Eclipse enthusiasts caught few glimpses of the moon inching over the sun through a thick layer of grey clouds in the north part of South Africa on Wednesday, but were delighted by the spectacle nevertheless.