Meles Zenawi has cancer, or a brain tumour, or Aids, or has been poisoned by his wife, Ethiopian dissident groups have speculated.
Kaizer Chiefs’ coach Stuart Baxter says he is grasping the pressures of returning both confidence and glory back to the club.
Now that Rwanda’s Gacaca courts has completed their mandate, the fear that has so far kept the peace must give way to trust, writes Jan Hofmeyr.
The ANC Youth League has sent birthday wishes to Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, referring to him as "president".
Carolina in Mpumalanga has become a test case for what is wrong with water governance in South Africa, writes Sipho Kings.
Police in the United Kingdom have arrested a journalist from Rupert Murdoch’s market-leading tabloid the Sun on suspicion of computer hacking.
Vodacom, the South African unit of British mobile operator Vodafone, has reported a 9.3% rise in first-quarter revenue.
Shell will challenge a $5-billion fine imposed by Nigeria over an offshore oil spill last year, a statement seen by Agence France-Presse says.
Egypt’s former spy chief Omar Suleiman, one of the top figures in the regime ousted by last year’s uprising, has died. He was 76.
Limpopo’s education minister Dickson Masemola says it is "unfair" that he is being blamed for the Limpopo textbook saga.