Côte d’Ivoire has announced an inquiry into atrocities committed during the bloody post-election crisis.
Osama bin Laden’s long-time lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri has taken command of al-Qaeda after the killing of the group’s founder and leader.
Britain’s fierce resistance is being tested as governments argue over how to structure a second Greek rescue package.
A senior member of the Church of Scientology is due to appear in court in Australia on Thursday charged with perverting the course of justice.
Nato is using information gleaned from Twitter to help analysts judge which sites could be targeted by commanders for bombing and missile strikes.
South Africa has accused Nato of deliberately targeting Gaddafi, warning that its campaign in Libya could paralyse other UN Security Council action.
The "Lulz Security" hacker group is flaunting its notoriety with a telephone hotline for people to call to suggest targets for cyber attacks.
Low-level radioactive waste packages accumulated from the 1960s at the Nuclear Energy Corporation South Africa in the North West has been removed.
Two teenage girls have been jailed after confessing to baking poisoned cookies that killed a boy at their school in Brazil.
Armies of Sudan clashed in Abyei, the Sudan south’s People’s Liberation Army has said, two days after an agreed provisional demilitarisation accord.
ANCYL president Julius Malema is expected to hang on to his title this weekend. But anything can happen at an elective congress. As well he knows.
President Zuma says those who feel the extension of Chief Justice Ngcobo’s term is unconstitutional should have spoken up when the law was drafted.
About 200 doctors converged on the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday in protest against poor security at hospitals.
South Africans should boycott Namibian tourism and products because of the country’s seal culling practices, animal rights groups say.
Young people in South Africa live in terrible socioeconomic conditions, the Congress of South African Trade Unions has said.
Retail trade sales at constant prices for April rose a stronger than expected 9.8% year on year after a revised 5.3% growth
Former Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund trustee Jeremy Ractliffe was on Wednesday found not guilty on a charge of possession of uncut diamonds.
The South African passport found on the body of Fazul Abdullah Muhammad, suspected to have been an al-Qaeda operative, is a fake.
Cinema Nouveau is giving away two sets of double tickets to Johannesburg <i>M&G</i> readers for a screening of <i>The Importance of Being Earnest</i>.
Ahead of the upcoming ANC Youth League elections, M&G deputy editor-in-chief Rapule Tabane looks back at the last elections and tells us what we can expect this time around.
Wallaby sensation James O’Connor quit Super 15 side the Western Force on Wednesday after negotiations over a new contract broke down.
Get creative instead of splashing the cash this Father’s Day.
Chelsea’s chief executive said on Wednesday the English Premier League club would name a new coach within two weeks.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela — SA’s most formidable matriarch — complains that she was not consulted by makers of a movie about her life.
Louis Oosthuizen was 12 and Charl Schwartzel 10 when they played their first round of golf together.
Pakistan’s spy agency has arrested CIA informants who fed information to the US spy agency before the raid last month which killed Osama bin Laden.
The Public Protector has begun probing the alleged misuse of state funds by Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Sicelo Shiceka.
Argentine football icon Diego Maradona is suing two companies for using his name and image to promote an online game without his permission.
Heartbroken <i>Playboy</i> founder Hugh Hefner said on Tuesday his wedding had been cancelled because his 25-year-old fiancée had changed her mind.
Organisers of the London 2012 Olympic Games have allocated Libya "a few hundred tickets" for the event.
South Africans must take back the land that belongs to them without paying for it, ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema said in Cape Town on Tuesday.
US and Australian Open champion Kim Clijsters has re-injured her right ankle, just days before the start of Wimbledon.