After 9/11, when General Pervez Musharraf chose to ally with the Americans in the "war on terror", it was a fundamental blunder.
President Jacob Zuma’s speech at the ANC’s anniversary in Polokwane on Saturday reflects an organisation deeply divided, DA leader Helen Zille said.
The <i>New Age</i> newspaper would be a breath of fresh air with balanced reporting, said President Jacob Zuma on Saturday in Durban.
At least one man has been killed in clashes with police in a Tunisian provincial town, a hospital source and witnesses said.
A US court has ordered Twitter to hand over details of the accounts of WikiLeaks and several supporters as part of a criminal investigation.
Cricket’s inconsistent use of the umpires’ decision review system is the subject of fresh debate and is sure to again be a contentious issue.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard pledged financial support for Australia’s flood-hit north-east on Saturday during a tour.
After first day in Congress, Republicans have outlined three bills aimed at limiting power of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Zimbabwean officials have insisted they would not back down from a plan to require journalists and media houses to pay higher registration fees.
Microsoft’s decision to make its new operating system run on Arm chips will leave it playing catch-up in the growing tablet computer market.
Residents might be reminded of a lyric from the Eagles’ <i>Hotel California</i>: "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
If South Sudan, why not South Nigeria, or North Côte d’Ivoire, or multiple Congos? The Sudanese vote has implications for all of Africa.
United States unemployment fell sharply to 9,4% in December, its lowest level since May 2009, the US labour department said on Friday.
South Africa’s invitation to join the amorphous entity is an affront to the country’s foreign policy, write Mills Soko and Mzukisi Qobo.
Movitel, Mozambique’s third biggest cellphone operator, will invest $120-million in the next 12 months to build infrastructure.
The death of two million fish that washed up on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay appears to have been caused by a sudden drop in temperature.
The Public Protector and the <em>New Age</em> are at loggerheads over a report about the controversial R500-million lease for new police headquarters.
The traffic officer who shot dead a cricket official outside Sahara Park Newlands was granted bail on Friday.
The commission organising the landmark vote on South Sudanese independence said on Friday that preparations were "absolutely complete".
Mistakes had cropped up in the national 2010 matric report and at least three schools listed with a zero pass had in fact passed, the government said.
South Africa has sent an observer team of 35 to monitor a secession referendum in southern Sudan on Sunday.
A suicide attack inside a public bathhouse in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province on Friday has killed 17 people.
Carmen, Tosca and Madame Butterfly have all received the treatment. So has Jerry Springer. Why not, then, the tragic heroine of South Africa?
A court hasrejected a bail appeal for Henry Okah, the suspected ex-militant leader accused of ordering car bombings on Nigeria’s independence day.
Award-winning designer Adriaan Hugo has a knack for taking household commodities and transforming them into something simpler, better and cooler.
Five men were arrested in the early hours of Friday morning Ehlanzeni district municipality chief whip Johan Holme Ndlovu.
For no good reason I hadn’t been to Franschhoek for a few years. Now I have a good reason not to return — and another to go back soon.
Hundreds of youths clashed with police in several cities in Algeria, including the capital, over food price rises and chronic unemployment.
Women’s tears contain a chemical signal that lowers testosterone levels and dampens sexual desire in men, according to a team of scientists in Israel.
More than 30 women were raped in a coordinated attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo on New Year’s Day.
At least once a year many of us make the great trek back home writes <b>Milisuthando Bongela</b>.
Economic decline does not have to be a permanent condition. We focus on five economies that rebounded from the edge of collapse in the 1990s & 2000s.