Idrissa Seck, one of President Abdoulaye Wade’s closest aides, was named Senegal’s new prime minister on Monday after the government was sacked in the wake of a ferry disaster that cost 1 200 lives.
The widow of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos threw a tantrum after her and her husband’s personal items were removed from display at the presidential palace museum.
A British woman was shot dead and her husband wounded during an attack at a hotel in Pilgrims Rest on Tuesday night, Mpumalanga police said on Wednesday
One person commits suicide roughly every 40 seconds, one person is murdered every 60 seconds and one person dies in armed conflict every 100 seconds, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.
South Africans should do more to care for mentally disabled children in society said former president Nelson Mandela at his brithday.
South Africans consumed up to 80% of the world’s Mandrax and accounted for the second largest quantity of cannabis seized anywhere in the world after Mexico, reveals a United Nations report.
The search for the remains of up to five people who drowned after their vehicle was swept away by heavy flood waters near Amatikulu, was continuing, the KwaZulu-Natal road traffic inspectorate said on Sunday.
The Ivory Coast town of Man was late on Monday ”totally under control” of forces loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo, who would soon try to recapture more rebel-held towns, an Ivorian army
representative said.
The success of Nepad would depend on how both governments and the private sector came to the party, and certainly wouldn’t work without private sector support, according to Ian Goldin, senior policy advisor at the World Bank.