What can be done to improve the Braamfontein Spruit? How should authorities act to properly enhance its potential? We’d like to know your thoughts.
Seacom on Thursday announced that its 17 000km submarine fibre-optic cable has been completed and commissioned.
Forty years ago we demanded liberation. Now we only settle for equality, says veteran activist
The announcement that the United Nations has a record $4,8-billion funding gap for its 2009 aid programmes may not strike some observers as news.
The popular Braamfontein Spruit in Johannesburg has long been a favourite of cyclists and nature lovers.
The sole surviving gunman of last year’s Mumbai attacks said on Wednesday he was prepared to be put to death after making a dramatic confession.
After months fighting off questions about health of chief executive Steve Jobs, Apple post profits of $1,23-billion in three months to end of June.
The eclipse was first sighted at dawn in eastern India near the town of Guahati before moving north and east to Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh and Bhutan.
A giant coconut-covered, chocolate-soaked sponge cake half the size of a car was unveiled on Tuesday in a world record baking attempt.
Wim Wenders said on Tuesday that he planned to complete a 3D dance film he had been making with legendary choreographer Pina Bausch before her death.
Bernard Madoff, given a 150 year prison sentence in June for running the biggest fraud in history, spends seven hours a day doing manual labour.
In the scale of things, it’s not as bad as a malfunctioning computer trying to seize control of your spaceship or having a lethal alien on board.
A British man and his former sweetheart have finally married 16 years after they drifted apart, reunited by a love letter lost behind a fireplace.
Judging by the responses to a street survey this week, ordinary South Africans probably won’t be spending 67 minutes giving something back.
President Jacob Zuma will not appoint Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni for another five-year term and will replace him with Gill Marcus.
As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became famous for their moonwalk, Michael Collins was left to caretake the mothership.
As "Famous" Seamus Heaney turns 70, he talks to Robert McCrum about celebrity, surviving a stroke and drinking poteen with Ted Hughes
Things to do in Johannesburg today: pose for photos beside the six-metre-high bronze statue of Nelson Mandela in Nelson Mandela Square.
We are hugely encouraged by the positive signs, but for the anti-corruption effort to work it must be fearless and utterly consistent.
Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Thursday predicted that the country’s economy would grow by at least 3,7% by the end of the year.
The University of Fort Hare launched a compulsory grounding programme this week for all its undergraduate students.
Swiss authorities on Thursday lifted a 12-year freeze on nearly $7-million in assets the late Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko held in Switzerland.
Zapiro has, over the years, often featured Nelson Mandela in his work. Here are some of the cartoons of Madiba made exclusively for the <i>M&G</i>.
David Lewis, outgoing chairperson of the Competition Tribunal, on Wednesday gave an assessment on the current state of competition in SA.
SA’s retail sales fell again in May, boding ill for second-quarter GDP and supporting the case for another interest-rate cut.
Hamas suspects that Israeli intelligence services are supplying the Gaza Strip with chewing gum that boosts the sex drive to "corrupt the young"
Few heads of state travel en famille. But when Barack Obama tours the world, he brings his daughters too.
I recently reviewed Ben Okri’s new work, <i>Tales of Freedom</i>, a collection of his short stories. I didn’t like it much.
A retired teacher has become an internet hit in China for throwing bricks at cars whose drivers were ignoring red lights at a dangerous crossings.
Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Sunday hailed a "clear victory" over Islamist rebels in a months-long battle to gain control of the capital.
President Obama’s first nominee to the supreme court, Sonia Sotomayor, begins a congressional confirmation hearing on Monday.
Dong Yuanyuan was a happy newlywed until ethnic hatred spilled over into violence in China’s far west. She is recovering: her husband is missing.