The Queensland Reds cemented their Super 14 semifinal credentials with a 19-12 victory over defending champions the Bulls.
All Blacks winger Joe Rokocoko scored a hat-trick of tries to spark the Auckland Blues to a 38-17 victory over the Western Force on Saturday.
Britain’s ruling Labour Party was pushed into third place by the Liberal Democrats after the country’s first televised leaders’ debate.
One of Africa’s most eminent political figures has condemned Britain for taking a patronising "big brother" attitude to its former colonies.
The EU has launched its observer mission for elections in Ethiopia, which rights groups say have already been tainted by political repression.
<em>Before the Sun Sets </em>is one of the first TV shows to have been developed inside Main Street Life, a multi purpose creative development.
<em>Home Away</em> tasked writers with writing about a specific interaction, place or object in a foreign city.
Striking municipal workers halted picketing on Friday to be briefed on a new offer by the employers, a union spokesperson said.
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Former Constitutional Court Judge Richard Goldstone will be allowed to attend his grandson’s bar mitzvah next month, the SA Zionist Federation said.
Four SA peacekeepers from the joint UN-AU mission who were kidnapped this week in Darfur are "in good health", the mission said on Friday.
South Africa is playing a key role in helping the world hold the threat of nuclear terrorism at bay.
Vote counting began on Friday in Sudan’s first multiparty election in more than two decades following a five-day ballot marked by delays.
The country is showing leadership on Aids with a R7-billion cash injection, but testing must be ramped up.
English county Surrey are reportedly trying to tempt West Indies great Brian Lara out of retirement to play Twenty20 cricket.
Former police chief Jackie Selebi is expected to continue giving evidence in his corruption trial in the high court in Johannesburg on Friday.
President Jacob Zuma has slammed Julius Malema’s behaviour after rediscovering his pack of flashcards that remind him how to be presidential.
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Advocate faces charges after trying to peddle influence for a R5-million fee.
Streets littered with refuse and looted stalls belonging to hawkers were left in the wake of SA Municipal Workers’ Union protest marches on Thursday.
Russel Grant, a resident at Main Street Life, a new urban space in the Jo’burg CBD that combines a residential block with communal studios, exhibition space and performance areas, gives a tour of the premises using Skype.
<i>Before the Sun Sets</i> is one of the first TV shows to have been developed inside Main Street Life, a multi-purpose creative development on the east side of Johannesburg. The show sees musicians perform one song on the roof of the building as the sun sets over the city.
Of all the experiments Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki has carried out in space blowing soap bubbles has arguably brought the biggest breakthrough.
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A festive atmosphere reigned at Johannesburg’s Mary Fitzgerald Square as Samwu members danced ahead of a march through the city centre on Thursday.
The number of rapes carried out by civilians in eastern DRC has increased 17-fold in the last few years, according to a study released on Thursday.
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Tough new state law bans abortion after 20 weeks, citing some doctors’ claims that foetuses feel pain at that stage.
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For all the nightmarish events of the last decade, my country has much to celebrate as we mark 30 years of independence.