In an age of lazy iconifying, Obed Musi was less remembered and celebrated than some contemporaries.
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/ 23 December 2010
<b>Niren Tolsi</b> headed out of Cape Town to find out how the tough economy has really hit home.
<i>M&G</i> reporter <b>Niren Tolsi</b> visits the land of Barack Obama.
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/ 21 December 2010
Fifa president Sepp Blatter says that the soccer world cup was "not a circus".
Soccer City is likely to be a bubbling cauldron of expectation when Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates resume their rivalry on Saturday.
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/ 12 November 2010
Botswana minister stokes the growing controversy around his government’s treatment of Bushmen living in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
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/ 29 October 2010
The PSC’s 2010 report on the state of the public service casts a sharp and often unflattering eye on the one-million-employee state sector.
State departments failed to respond to 90% of corruption cases reported by the public on hotlines during the past financial year, a report says.
Brazilian authorities have reduced by a year the jail sentence of convicted South African drug mule Tessa Beetge.
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/ 22 October 2010
Zanele Magwaza-Msibi seems set to go the way of other party dissenters.
Brazilian authorities were willing to send drug mule Tessa Beetge to testify in person in the sensational drug trafficking trial of Sheryl Cwele.
The plodding drug-trafficking trial of Sheryl Cwele was given an air of glamour on Monday as two Brazilian witnesses took to the stand.
The state on Monday called a Brazilian chemical expert as a witness at the drug-trafficking trial of Sheryl Cwele.
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/ 15 October 2010
It was a process more drawn out, and only marginally less painful, than trying to pass a 5kg block of the "devil’s dandruff".
Lawyers for Sheryl Cwele continued to punch as many holes as possible in the credibility of the state’s witnesses on Thursday.
According to the festival organisers it will feature a poet of "high excellence who reflects Dennis’s passion for human rights and integrity".
Even the rebuilding of homes after shack fires – eight have ravaged the settlement this year alone — has allegedly been corrupted.
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/ 23 September 2010
The local organising committee (LOC) of the Soccer World Cup is digging in its heels over a R90-million bill from the ministry of police.
The ANC’s provincial branches are broadly in agreement on many of the key issues expected to be addressed at the national general council meeting.
The 1,3-million workers who rejected the government’s wage offer appear to have sent a loud "no!" not just to the state but to trade union leaders.
NGO challenges JSC’s decision not proceed with the investigation of controversial Judge John Hlophe.
The Special Investigating Unit has confirmed that probes into the government acquisition of property constituted one of the largest by the outfit.
The era of Pitso Mosimane appears ready to break Carlos Alberto Parreira’s conservative mould.
The Mpumalanga premier has been accused of pushing through a deal to buy a building for more than four times its value.
When is a disciplinary hearing not a disciplinary hearing? When the Inkatha Freedom Party calls it an inquiry, it seems.
The chants of "Campeone! Campeone! that rang through the bowels of Soccer City on Sunday night confirmed it: Spain are champions of the world.
That we delivered a world-class World Cup with the kind of drama that only Africa can serve up is undeniable.
Holland will contest their first World Cup final since 1978 after beating Uruguay 3-2 at Cape Town Stadium on Tuesday night.
He walked into the press conference with chin and nose in the air, but the dejection shrouding Diego Armando Maradona was palpable.
Brazil are out of the World Cup. The Seleção lost 2-1 to Holland in the first of the tournament’s quarterfinals on Friday in Port Elizabeth.
Both Holland and Brazil will be entering Friday’s World Cup quarterfinals Port Elizabeth like fading beauty queens.
At Friday’s goalless draw between Portugal and Brazil in Durban, Brazil captain Lucio was masterful in containing Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo.