Ster Kinekor Cinema Nouveau is giving away double tickets to the Italian comedy <i>A Stroke of Luck</i>.
From German electronica to soothing sounds from Swaziland, we review the week’s latest releases.
Lleyton Hewitt is back in his comfort zone at the ATP Atlanta Tennis Championships, with six weeks of hard court tennis to go before the US Open.
Syria has forbidden the country’s students and teachers from wearing the niqab — the full Islamic veil — taking aim at a garment seen as political.
Goal-line video technology remains on Fifa’s agenda, even though the body confirmed that its lawmaking panel will not discuss the issue this week.
Four years ago thousands of Zimbabweans descended on the Marange fields in the grip of diamond fever.
BP can keep its blown-out well capped for at least another day, after it was determined that nearby seepage was not related to the leak.
South Africa have made four changes to their starting XV to face Australia as they try to get their Tri-Nations campaign back on track.
The public service and administration department said on Monday it would be meeting unions again this week in a bid to avert a potential strike.
Researchers are reporting a breakthrough against Aids with a study showing that a gel could halve the number of women who get infected.
The SACP on Monday reiterated its support for an independent media tribunal, as suggested by the African National Congress.
The ANC on Monday again denied instructing the SABC not to interview former president Thabo Mbeki.
It’s been a hellish few days and the reason for my woes is that I needed to select a new cellphone contract, writes <b>Lloyd Gedye</b>.
Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies will host an urgent meeting between Kumba Iron Ore and ArcelorMittal on Monday in a bid to resolve a row.
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) on Monday expelled its former Limpopo chairperson, Lehlogonolo Masoga.
For most blacks there is no need to draw moral equivalence between homophobia, misogyny and even Afrophobia (mistakenly called xenophobia).
Peter Harris, co-founder and managing director of the Resolve Group, responds to an article by the <i>M&G</i> regarding his company.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe should not be allowed to continue to flout the basic legal principles of SADC, the DA said on Monday.
Sections of the proposed protection of information legislation are reminiscent of apartheid-era secrecy laws, according to an intelligence expert.
Campaigning for Rwanda’s August 9 presidential election begins on Tuesday in a tense atmosphere following a string of attacks.
Sasol said on Monday it would explore for shale gas in the Karoo Basin in a joint venture with Statoil ASA and Chesapeake Energy Corporation.
Amnesty International on Monday accused Sudan of using arrests and torture to brutally suppress dissent.
Zimbabwe has set up temporary shelters for scores of its nationals leaving South Africa following threats of attacks on foreigners, an official said.
Kumba Iron Ore may look for other domestic buyers to take extra ore if ArcelorMittal’s South African unit shuts down one of its plants.
Cope deputy president Mbhazima Shilowa said he plans to take party leader Mosiuoa Lekota to court for stripping him of his duties as chief whip.
China’s massive Three Gorges dam is facing a major test of the flood control function that was one of the key justifications for its construction.
The IFP on Sunday voted to postpone its general conference until a disciplinary inquiry was conducted into national chairperson Zanele Magwaza-Msibi.
Julia Gillard’s chances of winning an August 21 election were boosted with a poll showing voters overwhelmingly preferred her as prime minister.
Report published in <i>Lancet</i> medical journal claims increased availability of pharmaceuticals would bring down infection rate.
It is a pity that Jacob Zuma, Nathi Mthetwa and Bheki Cele talk such blithe rubbish about the threat of attacks on foreign Africans living in SA.
Blasts targeting football fans in the Ugandan capital announce the regional ambitions of Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab.
Sudan’s army has killed more than 300 from Darfur’s rebel Justice and Equality Movement in recent clashes and 75 of its own soldiers also died.