British newspapers said on Tuesday that President Robert Mugabe had subjected Prime Minister Tony Blair to a humiliating ambush after ”hijacking” the UN Earth Summit in Johannesburg to blame Britain for Zimbabwe’s crisis.
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Friday it was concerned that an unmarried Nigerian mother sentenced to be stoned still faced the death penalty, despite international anger at the case.
Cabinet has cancelled the sale process of the Komatiland Forest, for which Zama Resources had been named the preferred bidder, Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe said on Friday.
At least 52 villagers were massacred in northern Uganda at the weekend by rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army, a military representative said on Monday.
A secretary who worked in the Western Cape provincial government on Monday contacted the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in Cape Town, allegedly about claims of sexual misconduct against former premier Peter Marais.
Five men had been arrested in two incidents in Pretoria for possession of Aldicarb — a drug used to poison pets, especially dogs, by would-be burglars, police said.
Police in Britain arrested more than 30 suspected Internet paedophiles in a swoop targeting computer users accessing pay-per-view child sex websites based in the United States.
A BBC documentary on child rape in South Africa has been given the thumbs up by once sceptical MPs, who now favour its broadcast and appear satisfied it is not a ”seriously skewed” picture of sexual abuse in the country.
The state arms agency, Armscor, said the Department of Justice’s specialised commercial crime unit had been given access to all documentation it might require in order to investigate the alleged smuggling of missile technology to Chile.
AN international aid group said Friday that up to half a million Angolans face starvation in one of Africa’s worst humanitarian crises in a decade.