A Roodepoort couple were sentenced to an effective 20 years each on Monday for torturing their 4-month-old baby girl to death and severely abusing the baby’s two-year-old sister for almost a year.
Transport minister Dullah Omar said on Friday he supported the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) suspension of its chief executive, Trevor Abrahams, calling on Abrahams to co-operate with the investigation.
A medication tested on mice has proven effective in treating cancerous tumours by attacking the blood vessels that feed them.
CORRUPTION allegations have this month tarnished the image of Nigeria’s press, triggering self-doubt at the start of an election race in which it will play a major role.
The government of Swaziland has expelled all refugees from the country after a dispute with them over their monthly assistance.
Nearly three years of rural instability has badly damaged Zimbabwe’s crucial tobacco harvest, with the country likely to sell only a fraction of the tobacco it did in 2000, producers said on Tuesday.
The Swazi government said it was buying a million luxury jet for King Mswati III, even though massive food shortages threaten an estimated 230 000 people with starvation.
World opinion was sharply divided on a new agreement with Iraq to resume weapons inspections, mirroring the fierce debate in the UN Security Council.
Vivendi Universal said on Wednesday it has obtained a one-billion-euro (-million) credit line from a group of international banks as the beleaguered media giant struggled to avoid a cash crisis.
Two pioneers in Aids research who had fallen out bitterly over the discovery of the virus which causes the disease announced that they had joined forces to devise a trial vaccine.