Ethiopian officials seeking the return of an ancient obelisk looted by Italian fascist forces in 1937 left for Italy at the weekend determined to find out when and how it will be repatriated, officials said on Monday.
Developments in Zimbabwe are having an adverse effect on South Africa and causing it considerable problems, a government-business forum agreed this weekend.
A top Japanese government official whose comments that the nation might one day possess nuclear weapons sought to climb down from his statement as lawmakers expressed disgust on Sunday.
A 40-minute HIV/Aids awareness video directed at the people in the workplace has been launched by Pieter-Dirk Uys, alias Evita Bezuidenhout.
The office of Western Cape premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk has confirmed that a written threat against him by right-wing militants has been referred to the police.
A 13-year-old girl has been burned to death in Dirkiesdorp and three other children have been hospitalised in the wake of a massive veld fire.
The three-week municipal workers’ strike looks set to end after the SA Local Government Association announced on Tuesday night it had reached a tentative agreement with two trade unions.
The International Monetary Fund has told Malawi’s government to sort out some ”pressure points” in its current budget before lending to the impoverished southern African nation can be resumed, a report said on Wednesday.
Allied planes bombed radar and missile sites in the southern no-fly zone over Iraq on Thursday, targeting President Saddam Hussein’s air defences for the third time this week.
Africa was a priority for the US Trade and Development Agency and an office would be opened in Johannesburg in July.