The total solar eclipse in December had created tremendous local and international interest, the Limpopo Tourism and Parks Board said on Thursday.
Astronomers are carefully monitoring a newly discovered two kilometre asteroid to see whether it is on a collision course with Earth.
Thousands of Sierra Leoneans began voting on Tuesday in presidential and parliamentary polls aimed at securing peace after a brutal 10-year civil war thought to have claimed up to 200 000 lives.
Police arrested seven men after a traffic officer was shot and wounded following a cash-in-transit heist on the M3 near Ottery in Cape Town on Tuesday.
The Joy of Sex, the world’s most beloved bible of intimacy after the ancient Indian treatise, the Kama Sutra, has hit its second wind.
The Cape High Court has ordered the immediate release from prison of three burglars who stole whisky, brandy, soft drinks and sweets worth R800 during a break-in at the Hellenic Sports Club earlier this year.
Sierra Leone’s President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and his SLPP party is poised to win his country’s historic post-war elections, according to preliminary results.
In a new book, New York’s former fire commissioner describes a department ”in complete disarray” on September 11, with many top officials missing and its people at the World Trade Center knowing less than television viewers.
South Africa’s tourism industry looks set for another bumper year, says Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Valli Moosa. ”The boom just keeps going,” he said in a statement on Thursday.
About 250 shocked and nauseous guests walked out of the official screening of Cannes Film Festival French entry ”Irreversible” which features an explicit 10-minute rape scene.