A leader of a mainly white Zimbabwean farmer’s group told growers on Wednesday to abandon politics, saying it hurt efforts to deal with the government over its seizure of white-owned farms.
Johannes Kerkorrel’s mother, Anne Rabie, had the Afrikaans musician’s body exhumed and secretly re-buried early on Wednesday morning at Somerset West, Beeld reported.
The ashes of a South African man considered to be the ”last hero of the Titanic” will be scattered off the country’s east coast after his death last month at age 104, a relative said Thursday.
The World Bank will loan famine-hit Malawi
-million for an emergency recovery project to improve harvests and prevent more food shortages next year.
Britain has donated 10 million pounds worth of food aid to starving people in Zambia while Libya is giving 6 000 tonnes of food relief, Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has announced.
South Africa’s score on this year’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has slipped from five to 4,8, Transparency South Africa (T-SA) said on Wednesday.
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.