Mamphela Ramphele has warned unrest in the mining and agricultural sectors would continue if efforts were not made to change the industries’ dynamics.
Pompeii’s 105-million euro makeover, partly funded by the EU, has begun a day after former site managers were put under investigation for corruption.
There is no way in which you can ever deliver freedom to anyone only to restrict their expression of that freedom, writes Mpho Matheolane.
A powerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake has set off a tsunami that has killed at least five people in a remote part of the Solomon Islands.
ArcelorMittal South Africa has reported a full-year loss due to a drop in domestic steel sales and a decline in commercial coke sales.
The trial of five men charged with the rape and murder of a woman in New Delhi has opened with testimony from the man with her during the ordeal.
Two ministers in Australia have admitted to staying at a ski lodge owned by a man at the centre of a mounting corruption scandal in the country.
After having killed "several hundred" militants in fighting to reclaim north Mali, France says it will begin withdrawing its troops in the country.
Industry experts say a strong relationship between the state and the mining industry is needed in South Africa for it to realise its full potential.
A Somali woman who said she was raped by state security forces and a journalist who interviewed her have both been sentenced to a year in jail.