Former president Nelson Mandela is leading a last-ditch attempt to save Deputy President Jacob Zuma, the Business Day website reported on Wednesday. It said this came after President Thabo Mbeki said he would announce his decision on Zuma’s fate after his return from a two-day state visit to Chile.
A man’s leg and part of his torso fell from a South African Airways (SAA) jetliner on to a suburban New York home on Tuesday as the aircraft prepared to land at John F Kennedy airport, authorities and the airline said. More remains were found inside the wheel-well of the SAA aircraft when it landed at JFK, arriving from Johannesburg via Dakar, Senegal.
The Oscar-winning actor Anne Bancroft, who immortalised the role of the graduate-seducing Mrs Robinson on the big screen, has died at the age of 73. A spokesperson for her husband, Mel Brooks, announced on Tuesday that she had died of uterine cancer at a hospital in Los Angeles on Monday.
Three million children will die in the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the failure of the global community to meet its promise of slashing the death rates of the under-fives by 2015, the United Nations will reveal on Thursday.
Schabir Shaik’s case links back to the Hefer commission, and goes forward to Deputy President Jacob Zuma. The saga also goes further, to what President Thabo Mbeki should be doing, and this is the story the media should be chasing. All the way. It’s time to get beyond the last-gasp cliché’s like "shaken, rattled and rolled over".
It’s hard to imagine, from our modern vantage point of mass censorship, "Homeland Security" Gestapo-like control, Pentagon-funded war films and propaganda disguised as Hollywood product — but, for a brief moment in the 1970s, film in general was allowed to reflect accurately the distaste and revulsion for the government and the military that seems almost impossible to imagine today.
Standard Chartered, one of the United Kingdom’s leading banks in the developing world, is proud of its record in Africa. The winner of several awards for best foreign bank south of the Sahara, the bank has a -million-a-year fund for community projects, taken from an operating profit across the continent of -million.
The United Nations is looking into how best to resolve the problem of internally displaced persons worldwide, a senior UN official has said, describing internal displacement as a neglected humanitarian issue. More attention will be paid to eight countries with acute IDP problems, which include Nepal, Somalia and Sudan.
The Pretoria High Court had a chilling insight into the mind of a killer when a tape recording of the dying moments of his two victims was played as evidence on Tuesday. Judge Johan Els sentenced self-confessed double killer Barend (Ben) Bieldt (61) to 36 years’ imprisonment, of which he effectively has to serve 26 years.
The South African National Blood Service has received two testing instruments as part of efforts to exclude racial profiles from its blood safety procedures, the service said on Tuesday. Last year, the service was ordered by the Department of Health to develop blood safety procedures less reliant on a racial profile.