Findings published in the <i>Lancet</i> say aid has supplanted some money that would otherwise have been earmarked for health departments.
Rescuers pulled more bodies from a collapsed hillside slum near Rio de Janeiro on Friday, abandoning hope of finding survivors from a mudslide.
After a violent life and violent death, Eugene Terre’Blanche was laid to rest in peace on Friday as family members threw petals on his coffin.
AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche was buried on his farm in Ventersdorp on Friday after a week of flared tempers sparked by his violent death.
AWB leader and farmer Eugene Terre’Blanche was buried on his farm in Ventersdorp on Friday after a week of flared tempers sparked by his violent death
After the polarising comments about Eugene Terre’Blanche’s death, South Africans need to be guided by the Constitution.
Judge Meyer Joffe will make a ruling on former police national commissioner Jackie Selebi’s discharge application on Monday.
SA on Friday welcomed a decision by the World Bank to grant Eskom a $3,75-billion loan to develop a power plant to boost flagging power supply.
<em>Stephen Gray</em> visits Cape Verde’s Santiago Island and is charmed by the songs of longing and sadness.
Few things define the good life in France better than champagne and foie gras, but few would have thought them symbols of social integration.
New restaurants are popping up all over the dilapidated Cape Town suburb of Woodstock.
The ANC on Friday said that the ANC Youth League’s expression of support for Zanu-PF undermines SA’s mediation efforts in Zimbabwe.
The Bulls recaptured their winning form in the Super 14 on Friday, scoring four tries to defeat the Chiefs 33-19 in a repeat of last year’s final.
The ANC "strongly condemned" ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s treatment of a BBC journalist, a spokesperson said on Friday.
China has sentenced to death a South African woman for drug-smuggling, state media said on Friday.
The US envoy to the UN on Thursday cited "disturbing trends" that could mar the outcome of Sudan’s first multiparty vote in two decades.
A Ugandan parliamentary panel said on Friday there is little backing for the country’s widely condemned anti-gay Bill.
Was Jackie Selebi wrong to enter a gun battle with just a Swiss army knife?
MTN and Standard Bank face a claim of close to R1-billion for infringement of technology patents in their MTN Banking joint venture, it was reported.
Rescue workers dug for survivors on Thursday after a torrent of mud ravaged a hillside slum near Rio de Janeiro, burying dozens of residents.
A number of youths were detained after fresh violence in Bishkek overnight as Kyrgyzstan’s new government moved to solidify control of the country.
Police have launched an investigation into SA Quantum boss Veon Bock, following his attempt to bribe the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>.
Government has squandered more than R1-billion of taxpayers’ money over the past eight months, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday.
ANCYL president Julius Malema said on Thursday that he was not "remorseful" over chasing a BBC journalist from a media briefing.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Peter Bradshaw reviews <em>A Prophet</em> a powerful prison-gangster picture starring Tahar Rahim.
The United States has abstained on the vote by the World Bank’s board of directors on the proposed Eskom loan of $3,75-billion.
The M&G Centre for Investigative Journalism is taking up the fight against the new proposed Protection of Information Bill.
The nine-year-old son of a Wits scientist found a fossil of a new hominid species that lived 1,95m years ago, the scientist revealed on Thursday.
Africa must better protect its waters as it faces piracy on an ever-larger scale and the dumping of toxic waste, a meeting on maritime security heard.
Business confidence in March showed its first year-on-year increase since September 2007, according SACCI’s Business Confidence Index.
Moroka Swallows striker Siyabonga Nomvete is the surprise inclusion in the 25-man Bafana Bafana squad for the month-long training camp in Germany.
The ANC launched an appeal against an interdict on singing "shoot the boer", but a call to exercise restraint in singing the lyrics remains in force.