The Sunday Times is to return all of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s medical records with the exception of one copy, the Johannesburg High Court ordered on Friday. The newspaper must also refrain from reporting or commenting on any of the minister’s medical reports pending the outcome of the rest of the application.
Many residents were too afraid to leave their homes in Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s main oil, on Friday and troops patrolled the streets after dozens were killed in gun battles. Up to 40 people died in street fighting between troops and heavily armed gangsters on Thursday, local newspapers reported, and the gunmen are widely expected to return.
Devarakshanam Govinden looks at the career of Amitav Ghosh, whose books focus on mobility and migration.
Shaun de Waal on non-fiction that examines South African senses of space.
The Social Construction gig at the Gem Bioscope in Kensington is the place to be this weekend, writes Lloyd Gedye.
Once again, South Africa’s most debauched music festival was a riot. Lloyd Gedye and Lisa Skinner made the trek to Oppikoppi.
Whether you call his music township jive, jazz or bubblegum, Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse has provided the soundtrack for generations, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
The treatment of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit has shown that there is no real political will to hold the Zimbabwean leadership accountable for their actions, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Friday.
South African hard-line apartheid-era minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok and four co-accused received suspended sentences on Friday after pleading guilty to attempting to murder a leading black activist cleric in 1989.
Southern African leaders launched a peacekeeping brigade on Friday as part of a planned African standby force to be deployed on peace missions and to tackle disarmament and humanitarian crises on the continent. Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa officially launched the brigade and inspected troops in front of regional heads of state at a summit.