Thai officials have vowed to crack down on sellers and importers of giant African cockroaches, saying the exotic insects currently in vogue as pets could pose a health hazard.
More than 100 bodies have been found on a road leading to the strategic port of Uvira in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a rebel representative said on Saturday.
Whenever Mohamud Ali Abdi’s captors went out, they tied one of his toes to the trigger of an AK-47 assault rifle pointed at his stomach.
The re-arrest of terror suspect James Kilgore was nothing other than an abuse of power by South African officials, a Wynberg magistrate was told on Friday afternoon.
Paramilitaries set fire to immigrant shantytowns, rounding up young men and whipping them. Gangs armed with machetes chase down foreigners in the streets.
President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday he was disturbed by a newspaper report that his government had refused to help fund a project aimed at preventing a San language from becoming extinct, and stated that he was making an undertaking to do so.
Two of the University of Natal’s decision-making bodies are at loggerheads over the appointment of Professor William Makgoba as a vice-chancellor.
Mozambique, suffering from a withering hunger crisis, may reject future food donations that contain genetically modified corn.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Tuesday strongly criticised the proposed new Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Bill, saying it undermined the Mbeki administration’s commitment to an open economy in a globalised environment.
Hundreds of thousands of prison inmates and sick people in hospitals may be disenfranchised as there is no provision to register them when a review of the voters’ roll begins next week.