Germiston man in his late 20s was arrested on Thursday night for making false claims of having planted a bomb in a pub, and saying he was responsible for one of the Soweto bomb blasts in the
early hours of Wednesday morning.
Environmental activists Greenpeace on Wednesday invaded the property of a oil refinery in Durban to demand clean energy.
Hope is dying by the day that the two-month old crisis in Ivory Coast will be just a brief, if bloody, episode in one of Africa’s few success stories.
Former US president Jimmy Carter launched a house building project to provide 100 homes in Durban, calling on volunteers ”to get their hands dirty”.
Kenya, without donor aid, will enter into heavy domestic borrowing to bridge a four-percent budget deficit.
A Malawian opposition official was denied bail on Wednesday after police accused him of inciting people to demonstrate against President Bakili Muluzi’s bid for a third term.
A Zimbabwean prosecutor told a court in Harare on Monday that a US journalist charged with publishing falsehoods may not be jailed if convicted in a landmark trial under a tough new press law.
THE New National Party (NNP) on Saturday formally accepted more than 150 former Democratic Alliance (DA) members who had defected to the NNP over the past few months.
Zambia’s former president Kenneth Kaunda is in Iraq to hold talks with that country’s leader Saddam Hussein, a representative said on Wednesday.
WESTERN CAPE MEC for local government Willem Doman on Sunday said the arrears in service payments to municipalities has to be addressed.