The ANC national executive committee (NEC) has asked the party’s president, Jacob Zuma, to rein in Youth League president Julius Malema.
Swaziland’s King Mswati III on Thursday sent more than 50 000 young women into the fields to cut reeds for an annual ritual next week.
European Union leaders are considering imposing sanctions against Russia ahead of a summit on Monday to discuss the situation in Georgia.
Leaders of the ANC are trying to fix its image ahead of the 2009 elections, but it is battling to speak with one voice, analysts say.
The BHP Billiton hearing at the Competition Commission, scheduled to begin on Thursday, has been cancelled, a statement said on Wednesday.
Outgoing Northern Cape ANC chairperson John Block has apologised for the behaviour of some party members in the run-up to a provincial conference.
The Northern Cape African National Congress conference had still not started by noon on Wednesday.
Police arrested a man in Kuruman on Tuesday for unruly behaviour outside the Kgalagali District municipal offices where ANC leaders were meeting.
She has played a concentration camp survivor and a working-class whistle-blower, but in Mamma Mia! Meryl Streep sings, dances — and does the splits.
Supporters of embattled African National Congress president Jacob Zuma will march on sixteen police stations in Durban on Friday.