The deputy director general in the Presidency, Lakela Kaunda, has dismissed reports linking her to Jessie Duarte’s resignation as "grossly incorrect".
A knife-wielding man injured 28 children, two teachers and a security guard in a kindergarten in China, the fourth such stabbing case in recent weeks.
Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota suspects the forensic audit he is calling for into the possible fraud in his party’s finances "ruffled a few feathers".
Indirect negotiations mediated by United States likely to start within weeks after thaw in East Jerusalem settlement dispute.
A rights group on Wednesday called on Zimbabwe to abandon plans to sell "blood diamonds" from a field plagued by abuses.
Nelson Mandela plans to skip the opening ceremony of the Soccer World Cup finals in South Africa in June and will watch the tournament from home.
South African Airways is no longer scheduling extra flights after the backlog created by volcanic ash over parts of Europe was cleared.
Consumer inflation eased to 5,1% year-on-year for March, compared with 5,7% year-on-year in February, Statistics South Africa.
Madagascar’s Andry Rajoelina and former leader Marc Ravalomanana hold talks in South Africa on a draft roadmap to for a new country.
Bakkies Botha will make his first appearance this year when he runs out for the Bulls in Saturday’s Super 14 match against the Sharks at Loftus.
Former Ekurhuleni Metro police chief Robert McBride was not sober hours after he crashed his car in 2006, says the doctor who treated him on the day.
Liberia’s president defends the country’s finance minister against charges of corruption, blaming a lack of procedures for the mishap.
The two men arrested for the assault on baby Marzaan Kruger and her minder Francina Sekhu asked to be released from custody on Wednesday.
South Africa’s MTN Group confirmed on Wednesday it is in talks with Orascom Telecom’s parent to buy the Egyptian firm, or some of its assets.
Wildlife experts in India are hunting a bull elephant who is thought to have gored 12 female tuskers to death because they spurned his advances.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has predicted a keen contest during the World Twenty20, saying the race for the title was too close to call.
SA voters have the power to stand up against corrupt government officials who abuse their positions of power, DA leader Helen Zille says.
Two Mozambican citizens were expected to appear in court on Wednesday for the assault on baby Marzaan Kruger and her minder, Francina Sekhu.
More than 20 members of Burma’s ruling junta have resigned from the army in what is widely seen as a bid to run as civilians in forthcoming elections.
South Africa coach Carlos Alberto Parreira believes his team is slowly developing the style necessary to be a surprise at the Soccer World Cup.
Manuel Noriega, the former Panamanian dictator extradited from the United States to France, is to be detained in one of Paris’s most famous prisons.
South Africa spent part of Tuesday fine-tuning their free kicks and set pieces ahead of their World Cup warm-up match against Jamaica.
President Jacob Zuma reflected on the long way government still had to go given apartheid’s lingering legacy, at Freedom Day celebrations on Tuesday.
The high murder rate in SA has killed the idealism and dreams people had after the 1994 elections, the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) said on Tuesday.
The Zimbabwe High Court has approved the sale of diamonds from a field plagued by human rights abuses, state-run media reported on Tuesday.
The release of four South Africans abducted in Sudan was the "best Freedom Day present for the country", President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
René Redzepi’s Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, knocks El Bulli off top spot while only three UK chefs make top 50.
Embattled Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein will tell lawmakers on Tuesday the company did not bet on the collapse of the housing market.
Hosts South Africa will play a 2010 World Cup warm-up match against Jamaica in Germany on Wednesday.
South Africa still has a lot to achieve before all South Africans are really free, the Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Monday.
President Omar al-Bashir won Sudan’s elections in a result that confirms in office the only sitting head of state wanted by the ICC for war crimes.
SA would be a country based on <i>ubuntu</i> only when this became manifest on the roads, Transport Minister S’bu Ndebele said on Wednesday.