A new book celebrating the 15th birthday of South Africa’s Constitution details how agreement was hammered out in the final weeks before its adoption.
Veteran Senegalese politician Abdoulaye Wade is set for a runoff election after failing to secure a majority in the first round of voting.
Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili resigned this week from the faction-riven ruling party to join a new movement.
A faction aligned to President Jacob Zuma in Cosatu enjoys the upper hand after the federation’s central executive committee meeting this week.
The Emusoi centre in Tanzania is changing the lives of young Maasai girls in the community, by helping them receive secondary school and further education.
President Robert Mugabe has launched a programme urging parliamentarians to lead by example in fighting HIV/Aids.
Kenny Kunene gives Bongani Madondo a candid interview on Zwelinzima Vavi as his marketing tool, sushi, tenderpreneurs and keeping it real.
Cosatu says it asked its affiliates to develop education programmes and campaigns to educate members on violence-free strikes and demonstrations.
Listen to the full, candid interview Bongani Madondo had with Kenny Kunene at the M&G offices.
Black Caps batsman Jesse Ryder and fast bowler Doug Bracewell will miss Saturday’s ODI against the Proteas for breaching team rules on alcohol.
SAA announced it has entered into a code share agreement with Air China, which aims to complement SAA’s non-stop service between Jo’burg and Beijing.
Footage filmed by Zimbabweans over the past two months highlights the issues that continue to plague the country and its people, political and economically.
The seasonally adjusted Kagiso PMI posted strong gains in February, rising by 4.7 index points to 57.9 — the highest level since February 2010.
Sudanese fighter jets have bombed oil and water wells inside South Sudan and its ground troops have crossed into border region, the south says.
The sports ministry is due to receive a report on the three-month committee inquiry into Cricket South Africa.
Safa has welcomed a delegation of Fifa investigators who have arrived in SA to look into cases of alleged match-fixing ahead of the 2010 World Cup.
Relieved passengers have disembarked from a disabled cruise ship docked in the island nation of the Seychelles after three days at sea without power.
Eskom has paid an international ferrochrome producer to shut two of its furnaces in SA in to help the utility cope with its tight electricity supply.
Abdoulaye Wade, one of Africa’s oldest leaders, is facing defeat in Senegal after an election that protesters say he should never have contested.
A Chinese man has been arrested in Cape Town for possessing ivory and elephant tusks.
A clerk from the police’s forensic laboratory has appeared in court in connection with the theft of several rhino horns from a laboratory safe.
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Saint Petersburg passed a controversial law banning "homosexual propaganda", in defiance of protests by gay rights groups.
Rupert Murdoch’s son James has decided to step down as CEO at his father’s troubled British publishing unit, News International.
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Zimbabwe’s Indigenisation Minister Saviour Kasukuwere says he’s "sick and tired" of David Brown not complying with the country’s black ownership laws.
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A Zimbabwean spy has been accused of demanding $10 000 from the head of the national football association to protect him from assassination.
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Nigeria’s north-east areas have been hit by attacks after one school was set ablaze, another was destroyed and a police station was hit by gunmen.
South Africa have coasted to a six-wicket, series-clinching win over New Zealand in their second one-day international.
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Ayo, Saul Williams, Nancy G and Flavia Coelho join the lineup of international artists at the Bushfire Festival taking place in Swaziland in May
Sascoc CEO Tubby Reddy says he expects South Africa’s Olympic team to bring home medals in five sporting events at the London Games in July.
Julius Malema has urged strikers at the Impala Platinum mine in Rustenburg to negotiate a peaceful end to their labor dispute, which has left 3people dead.
Four South African National Parks officials have been arrested in connection with poaching after two rhinos were found dead, with their horns missing.
Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili on Tuesday resigned from the faction-riven Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) to join a new movement.