AC Milan won a record sixth Italian Super Cup after coming from behind to beat city rival Inter Milan 2-1 in a hard-fought derby at Bird’s Nest stadiu
Somalia’s capital has been "fully liberated" from Islamist al-Shabaab rebels, but getting food to the famine-struck country remains a problem.
As violence intensified in Syria, an army defector said that troops had been ordered to commit genocide and were told not to spare women and children.
President Jacob Zuma will visit the Republic of Burundi next week to strengthen relations between the two countries.
Jacob Zuma’s confidante is part of a Chinese company’s purchase of the Orkney mine, which was run into the ground by the politically-connected Aurora.
Thousands marched though the streets of Madrid on Friday against the use of force by police against demonstrators.
The ANC has once again announced that it has no policy on nationalisation of the mines, spokesperson Keith Khoza said.
The Bok coach named a 24-man squad featuring several players returning from injury rehabilitation for the home leg of the Tri-Nations series.
The ANC has taken an "open-ended" approach to nationalisation of the mines, spokesperson Keith Khoza said on Friday.
Former president Nelson Mandela is healthy and at his home in Qunu in the Eastern Cape, his grandson Mandla Mandela said on Friday.
The "Who owns What database" being relaunched by the ISS is making the assets and private interests of all elected officials available to the public.
Consider the facts. Manifestly, the government wanted the chief justice to remain in office.
Almost 145 000 municipal workers will begin a countrywide strike on August 15, the South African Municipal Workers’ Union says.
The cleaning sector is planning to go on strike on Monday after wage negotiations with employers failed, Cosatu has announced.
China has said it was paying "close attention" to a disastrous famine in the Horn of Africa after top US House Democrat urged it to do more.
How the ANC Youth League leader turns political power into personal gain.
Judge Frans Kgomo has ordered state utility Eskom to release details of an undisclosed pricing deal with mining giant BHP Billiton, media reports say.
An audit of a German industrial company allegedly shows it paid R300-million to secure the sale of submarines to South Africa, media reports say.
Republicans managed to secure almost $3-trillion in spending cuts without any increase in tax in return.
A Syrian opposition leader has announced the movement would hold its first congress in the Tunisian capital in September, after Ramadan.
Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo, who won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing, talks about readers, writers and writing.
Using water flow to create energy has major potential benefits.
<em>Die Rebellie van Lafras Verwey</em> by Chris Barnard, one of the important group of Afrikaans writers known as the Sestigers, was written in 1971.
Celluloid and fine art come together this week in more ways than one.
Dramatic sculptures of mysterious creatures, created from wood, animal body parts and scrap metal form the basis of a new exhibition.
This week the 2010 Standard Bank Young Artist Award- winner for film Claire Angelique will screen her new feature film, <i>Palace of Bone</i>,
Booklovers and those who like their intellectual debate hard-boiled will be glad to hear that the Jozi Book Fair has come around again.
Catch Marcus Wyatt at his regular, informal Wednesday gigs.
Syria’s embattled president has issued a decree allowing opposition parties, after the UN Security Council condemned his crackdown on protesters.
A Swedish man police detained two weeks ago for trying to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen says he started his dream project "just for fun".
The SABC has terminated its agreement with the Media Workers’ Association of SA, for failing to comply with a clause in the agreement.
The NUM says wage talks with Eskom have collapsed and it will ask its members for a mandate to strike. But Eskom says downing tools would be illegal.