Jittery foreign visitors, including diplomats, celebrities and businessmen are scrambling to secure personal bodyguards for the Soccer World Cup.
The Stormers crushed New Zealand’s Wellington Hurricanes 37-13 on Saturday to go second in the Super 14 table.
Kevin de Klerk, president of the Golden Lions Rugby Union, will fly to New Zealand next week to provide moral support to his team.
A bus rapid transit (BRT) bus was shot at in Soweto in a drive-by shooting, Johannesburg police said on Saturday.
Winger Drew Mitchell scored four tries as the New South Wales Waratahs celebrated captain Phil Waugh’s record-breaking appearance.
Fatima Meer was a selfless leader who fought fearlessly and sacrificed her well-being in the struggle for liberation, the ANC said on Friday.
Records compiled from investigations after golfer’s car crash raise fresh questions about his account to journalists.
The UK press reaction to the South African president’s visit echoed an oldier, bloodier history between the two nations.
The Film and Publication Board has welcomed Multichoice’s decision not to launch a porn channel, saying it was in the best interests of children.
Twin blasts rocked Lahore on Friday, hitting a high-security military district and killing at least 39 people.
ANC stalwart Fatima Meer died in hospital on Friday at 81. Meer built a reputation as a prolific academic and a powerful advocate of gender equality.
ANC stalwart Fatima Meer died in hospital on Friday at 81. Meer built a reputation as a prolific academic and an powerful advocate of gender equality.
ANC stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has denied giving an interview to Nadira Naipaul, where she was quoted as slamming Nelson Mandela.
Speak out against leaders ‘of the people’ who make a mockery of women’s rights.
One man won’t change society. The masses must return to the battlefield to secure a socialist alternative.
There’s a surplus of pizza outlets around, but finding a good one is harder than you might think.
As an aspirant kugel Lerato Mogoatlhe gets to live
out her fantasy holiday in Plettenberg Bay.
The best of Bonga and Guinean quartet Ba Cissoko’s latest albums offer listeners some soothing African sounds.
The City of Johannesburg was forcing its bus rapid transit (BRT) system on the taxi industry, the United Taxi Association Forum said on Friday.
Miguel Sousa Tavares’s first novel that would seem rather distant from the usual South African concerns, but is not that far off.
Acclaimed in Britain and the US, <em>Blacklands</em> by Belinda Bauer (Bantam Press) is now out in South Africa. She tells us about her debut.
Yunus Vally speaks to the Essop twins about their representation of Islam in their new work.
Chelsea striker Didier Drogba was on Thursday named African Footballer of the Year for 2009, the second time he has won the award.
A Pretoria school girl who stayed at home with an ear infection was stabbed to death and had her hands chopped off, <em>Beeld</em> reported on Friday.
The internet’s most valuable domain name, sex.com, is back on the auction block — and bidding starts at $1-million.
The Ministry for Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities has welcomed Multichoice’s decision to cancel the launch of a pornographic channel.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews <e>Shutter Island</em>, starring Leonardo di Caprio.
What to do, where to go and what to see this week.
Algeria will end a 24-year absence from football’s top table when they kick their first ball at the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
After falling flat at the 2006 World Cup, this might be the chance of international silverware for some of the most well-known faces in the game.
The United States reached the 2010 Soccer World Cup by finishing top in the final six-team CONCACAF Zone.
A nation of just two million people, Slovenia have already punched above their weight to secure a place at the Soccer World Cup.