US TOBACCO giant R J Reynolds has been fined almost $15-million for illegally handing out fee packets of cigarettes at events attended by children, legal officials said on Thursday. The fine meted out by the top legal official in the traditionally anti-smoking state of California is believed to be the largest awarded against a firm […]
When a severed human hand arrived in his mailbox, Bob Brier wasn’t horrified or shocked. He thought it might be something cool to bring to work.
National police commissioner Jackie Selebi has ordered a probe of what are reported to be allegations of victimisation levelled against his Western Cape counterpart Lennit Max.
Writers in China, Iran and Peru are being increasingly threatened and put in prison for their work, the International PEN writers’ association has warned at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The nationwide strike by municipal employees is set to continue on Wednesday with pickets and marches in different parts of the country.
Saddam Hussein’s stepson arrived in his adopted home country early on Wednesday after being deported from the United States where he had tried to enrol in a flight school used by a Sept. 11 hijacker.
With three days to spare for a constitutional deadline, President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday night signed the Immigration Bill into law.
A Cape Town police officer who confessed to the murder of five petrol attendants has been transferred to a psychiatric hospital
Aids activists criticised a Zambian official on Thursday for his proposal to round up everyone infected with HIV and force them into isolation camps.
South Africa’s highest court has ruled that elected politicians at the municipal level of government may defect to another party without losing their seats.