The University of Cape Town has conferred an honorary doctor of literature on novelist, playwright and academic Zakes Mda.
Senegal has voted for a new Parliament with Macky Sall seeking a majority to put his policies into action after ousting Abdoulaye Wade in March.
Extradition proceedings against Shrien Dewani are expected to resume this month in the UK, nearly two years after his wife’s murder in Cape Town.
Enrique Pena Nieto, the youthful candidate of the party that governed Mexico for decades, has won a resounding victory in the presidential election.
As of today, Cape Town motorists caught talking or texting on their cellphone will be fined R500 and have their phones confiscated.
There is no place for President Bashar al-Assad in any future Syrian government, diplomats say, as Russia and China agree to transition plan.
Rebels in Mali have smashed seven tombs of ancient Muslim saints in Timbuktu as the ICC warned their campaign of destruction was a war crime.
For the third year running volunteer students are collaborating with artists and performers with the aim of opening the festival up to everyone.
Mail & Guardian editor-in-chief Nic Dawes talks us through some of the key points to come out of the discussions at last week’s ANC policy conference.
This week’s purchasing managers’ index figures for 26 countries – including SA – are likely to point to a slowing global economy, writes Matt Quigley.