This was supposed to be the African World Cup, stadium-scale mud in the eye of the miserabilists who have more or less written off the continent.
Even in the midst of the most important sporting event South Africa has ever hosted, Muslims at Soccer City found a way to observe the Friday prayer.
My favourite city in South Africa is, without doubt, Johannesburg. I love its energy and the spontaneity of its people.
Bengali lascars were the first to set up Indian restaurants in Britain, where there are now more than 6 000.
If wine producers think their darling wines will benefit from a few years’ maturation in bottle, then shouldn’t they release them later?
The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar was on Friday preparing to fête 50 years of independence mired in political and economic crisis.
Has Toronto gone overboard in treating the G20 meeting there as a marketing opportunity? <b>Michelle le Roux</b> examines the case.
The proposed constitutional amendment to the length of the terms of Constitutional Court judges is likely to prove a controversial change.
The world worked together to help bring apartheid to an end, writes <b>Kader Asmal</b>. So why allow it to live on in Israel/Palestine?
We catch up with Italy and Slovakia fans outside Ellis Park stadium on Thursday June 24 2010 following the reigning world champions’ 2-3 loss to Slovakia.
Members of a diamond watchdog have failed to reach consensus on whether to allow Zimbabwe to resume trade in gems from its Marange fields.
Sven-Goran Eriksson has cautioned Côte d’Ivoire against all-out attack against North Korea as they bid to reach the last 16 at the World Cup.
President Zuma is planning to hold a summit of national leaders during the World Cup to focus the world’s attention on the importance of education.
President Jacob Zuma says the World Cup must focus attention on "education for all". But will his summit in the last week of the tournament do that?
PAG are sponsoring a disadvantaged student in a work readiness programme for young adults aspiring to enter the workplace.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: <b>Peter Bradshaw</b> reviews <em>Creation</em>, starring Paul Bettany as Charles Darwin.
Documents have swept aside the corporate and political veil drawn over the fight for nearly a quarter of the multibillion-rand Sishen iron ore mine.
Japan advanced to the second round of the World Cup on Thursday when they beat their direct rivals Denmark 3-1 in Group E.
The Netherlands maintained their 100% record in the World Cup on Thursday when they finished on top of Group E after a 2-1 win over Cameroon.
Helen Zille walked out of a meeting on Cape Town’s toilet wars on Thursday after what she said was another threat to make the city ungovernable.
The oil spill piled pressure on Obama on Thursday as the hurricane season closed in and voters angry at his crisis management hammered the president.
Avusa posted a 38% drop in full-year earnings on Thursday, slightly better than expected, and its shares surged after it hiked its dividend.
A strike by Nehawu members over wages at the University of SA (Unisa) spread to other provinces on Thursday, the union said.
South Africa’s producer price inflation quickened year-on-year in May, largely driven by higher commodity prices.
The Africa Progress Panel has prepared a football-inspired guide to illustrate key development issues between countries competing at the World Cup.
The gusher in the Gulf of Mexico returned to full force on Thursday after BP was forced to remove a cap that had been containing some of the oil.
Social networking giant Facebook is looking to Asia and Russia as it reaches for world domination, it was reported on Thursday.
Spending in South Africa’s economy increased in the first quarter of 2010, the central bank said on Thursday in its June quarterly bulletin.
Talks between members of the Kimberley Process diamond watchdog were deadlocked on Thursday over whether to allow Zimbabwe to resume trade.
The Guardian presents this story out of Cape Town’s Blikkiesdorp township – a ‘temporary relocation area’ set up in 2008. Here they host the poor people’s world cup, a soccer tournament for local youth. Residents say they have been removed from the area they used to live, near Greenpoint Stadium.
Yet another would-be initiate has died at an illegal circumcision school in the Eastern Cape, the province’s health department said on Thursday.
Sudan on Wednesday denied trying to import arms on a ship intercepted in Cyprus, saying explosives on board had been ordered by a mining company.