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Rebuffing a US call to abandon Gaddafi, President Jacob Zuma has slammed Nato for "abusing" UN resolutions meant to protect Libyan citizens.
A rescission application against a hate speech judgment has been filed on behalf of SA’s ambassador to Uganda Jon Qwelane, his lawyers say.
Business Unity SA says the commemoration of Youth Day on Thursday should remind South Africa of the challenges faced by the younger generation.
Second-ranked Kim Clijsters lost in the second round of the Unicef Open falling to Romina Oprandi for a premature end to her Wimbledon preparations.
Unprotected sex, alcohol abuse and illiteracy are destroying the future of the country’s youth, says ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema.
About R1.4-billion intended to build extensions to the existing Parliament should rather be spent on flood relief, farmers’ union TAU SA has said.
The auditor general has found "serious problems" with Gauteng road department tenders worth over R1-billion, says the province’s minister for roads.
The police union wants an investigation into how R24-million was spent on "wasteful" police day festivities, and called for the event to be cancelled.
A pair of SA astronomers have found "really strange" planets orbiting a binary star system, just like the system where Luke Skywalker grew up.
Sri Lanka Cricket is seeking government grants and a soft loan to meet part of the $69-million it spent on co-hosting the 2011 World Cup.
The security chiefs who led a coup in Madagascar say they will not humour SADC leaders’ desire for exiled ex-leader Marc Ravalomanana to return.
Nepal has cleared the country’s last remaining minefield, nearly five years after the end of its decade-long civil war with Maoist insurgents.
The missing remains of Umkhonto we Sizwe activist Patrick Mahlangu, killed by security police in 1986, have been found and are to be exhumed.
More than 300 000 people are still displaced in Côte d’Ivoire almost two months after the end of the country’s post-election crisis, the UN says.
The government is "seriously exploring the need" to have a single election for national, provincial and local government, President Jacob Zuma says.
South Africa’s intervention in Walmart’s bid for control of Massmart was "aggressive" and could have been handled better, Massmart has said.
Nigerian police have charged a fiery Muslim cleric with planning a post-poll bombing in April that killed the person assembling the explosive.
Critics of Tunisia’s ousted president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali have slammed the state’s decision to put him on trial in absentia as a "PR exercise".
The final 24-month trial of a gel that researchers hope will help prevent HIV transmission is expected to start at the end of July or early August.
The South African Institute for Drug Free Sport has launched an anti-doping initiative after an increase in the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Distracting patients by immersing them in a virtual world, sometimes by using a video game, appears to help reduce pain.
Minister of Sport Fikile Mbalula said on Tuesday he still wants the country to bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.
We speak to the man considered to be Malema’s main opponent for the presidency — Gauteng ANCYL chairperson Lebogang Maile.
The culture commission has called for national legislation to regulate initiation schools, and in so doing reduce the risk to young men’s lives.
Holy broken bones! Barbara Gordon, the original Batgirl character paralysed from the waist down in a dastardly deed by the Joker, is to rise again.
A housing project worth over R50-million has been launched at the Skierlik informal settlement in the North West.
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has launched exotic currency options contracts to give investors greater flexibility in their currency bets.
Rights group Amnesty International urged Malaysia on Tuesday to withdraw its invitation to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
The Public Enterprises Ministry has blamed the media for government’s failure to consult leaders of state-owned enterprises before dismissing them.
Government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi said he was planning to buy airtime on television for national ministers.
The public works department’s decision to stop issuing tenders could damage the building industry, which was still recovering from the recession.