Four South African peacekeepers with the joint UN-African Union mission who had been held in Darfur since April 11 were freed on Monday.
Mvelaphanda Resources said on Monday it would sell 44-million shares in Northam to Kazakh group ENRC in a bid to simplify its corporate structure.
President Jacob Zuma has buried Aids denialism with the public disclosure of his HIV/Aids test, Numsa said on Monday.
The SACP will march against FNB’s decision to close 34 of its branches in the Free State and Northern Cape.
An Ekurhuleni metro police officer was asked to get a medical certificate for Robert McBride without a doctor examining him, a court heard on Monday.
A restaurant that refused a blind man entry because a waiter thought his seeing-eye dog was "gay" has been ordered to apologise and pay compensation.
Gunmen shot dead a Nigerian newspaper journalist after forcing their way into his home in the commercial capital, Lagos, his newspaper said on Monday.
Alan Sillitoe, one of the "Angry Young Men" of British fiction whose gritty realism portrayed working-class life after World War II, died on Sunday.
More than 50 000 people have pre-registered ahead of Tuesday’s launch of the first phase of ticket sales for next year’s Rugby World Cup.
Reigning champion Rafael Nadal insisted his number three ranking would have no affect ahead of the defence of his Rome Masters 1000 title this week.
Two men have been charged with attempted murder and robbery with aggravated circumstances for the assault of one-year-old Marzaan Kruger.
Tito Mboweni, former South African Reserve Bank governor, will join Goldman Sachs as an international adviser from June.
The drunken-driving trial of axed Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride was expected to continue in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday.
By the time you discover whether you’ve been tapped for the path to respect and cash handouts, or for a bullet through the brain, it will be too late.
Clean-up crews have cleared all the Rovos Rail coaches from the tracks where they were derailed in Pretoria last week.
Former US president writes about "never-before-heard detail" of 9/11, his alcoholism, and mistakes and achievements while in White House.
A group of developing countries said on Sunday a legally binding global agreement to limit climate change should be completed by 2011 at the latest.
President Jacob Zuma on Sunday promised to let the Cabinet study a report by the Public Protector that found he violated the executive code of ethics.
A tornado nearly a kilometre wide ripped through central Mississippi on Saturday, killing 10 people, including three children.
The Congress Of The People (Cope) in KwaZulu-Natal said it was concerned about mud-slinging in the party ahead of its elective
conference.
An explosion at a café in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray killed five people on Saturday and wounded 20 others.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, discovered the split personality of Zimbabwe’s government when he visited the country last week.
Waratahs winger Lachlan Turner took a kick on his finger tips then tiptoed for 20m just centimetres from the sideline, to help his side to victory.
Hurricanes flyhalf Aaron Cruden ensured his side’s Super 14 slim play-off hopes remained alive with a 33-31 victory over the Otago Highlanders.
Marcus Fraser will take a one-stroke lead into Sunday’s shoot-out at the Ballantine’s Championship with Ernie Els just two shots off the pace.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon met with Polisario Front head Mohamed Abdelaziz on Friday and expressed renewed concern about alleged human rights violations.
Judge Richard Goldstone would attend his grandson’s bar mitzvah in Johannesburg next month, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies said on Friday evening.
An ultra-right wing group calling for an end to "genocide in South Africa" burned a SA flag during a protest march to the embassy in Stockholm.
Goldman Sachs is preparing to defend itself against the US government allegations by arguing that it was unsure where housing prices were headed.
Former economics student David Kernell faces up to 50 years in jail if convicted of hacking into email account.
Union members invest billions of rands each year in pension funds and competition for their business is fierce.
Negotiations are continuing to secure the release of four SA peacekeepers who were abducted in Sudan, it was reported on Friday.