Concern over the health of Kenya’s main opposition candidate in this month’s presidential elections has cast a cloud over the opposition’s chances of winning the poll, regional analysts said on Thursday.
Politically motivated violence appears to be decreasing in Zimbabwe, according to the latest report by a local human rights group.
Laika, the first dog in space, died after a few hours in orbit, according to new research by a Russian space expert.
Planting time for South African commercial summer crops, like maize and sunflower, in the largest parts of the summer production areas is quickly running out, and there is need for good rains within the next two to three weeks.
The trial of Swaziland opposition leader Mario Masuku, charged with demanding the overthrow of Africa’s last absolute monarch, was adjourned on Tuesday after police threw his supporters from the courtroom
Ethiopian Airlines has suspended its biweekly flight to Israel in a tit-for-tat row over airport security.
ACKNOWLEDGING that your child is turning into a sexual being is, for parents, one of the greatest challenges of adolescence – especially when it seems to come so fast on the heels of childhood
WHEN Nasser Alaisa left South Africa for his refugee camp home in Palestine at the end of the first annual 20-day International Human Rights Academy at Robben Island last month he was not sure whether he would arrive there safely…
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov announced this week that he will play his first public match against a computer since his stunning loss to IBM’s Deep Blue machine five years ago.
Mondli Makhanya, a political editor at the <i>Sunday Times</i>, has been appointed as editor of the <i>Mail&Guardian</i> newspaper from October 1.
Two South African helicopters on Monday completed the evacuation of Russian scientists on board a German ship stranded in thick pack ice in the Antarctic.
Kenya reluctantly handed over key evidence in the suicide bombing of a Mombasa tourist hotel to Israeli investigators yesterday, and released the bodies of three of the 16 dead to their families for burial.<br>
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Nigerian media group <i>ThisDay</i> (Pty) Ltd, which is to launch a national daily newspaper in South Africa early next year, has purchased CNA Entertainment, a company consisting of 71 retail stores in the CNA chain.
Oil prices dropped 2.7 percent on Monday after Iraq announced it would resume crude exports from May 8, ending a month-long ban on sales to protest against Israeli incursions into Palestinian territory.
Every day hundreds of children are at risk of being infected with HIV
Respected scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have warned that the US is developing a new generation of weapons that undermine and possibly violate international treaties on biological and chemical warfare.
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that it does not have the resources to assist 1,5-million Angolans in need of aid over the next 18 months.
Editor of the <I>Mail & Guardian</I>, Howard Barrell, announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying he wanted to be closer to his family who live in the UK.
Israel has come under a barrage of criticism after one of its warplanes dropped a one-ton laser-guided bomb into the crowded neighbourhood of Al Daraj, killing 15 Palestinians, a top militant and wounding 176 in Gaza City.
The South African government today announced that is has sold Transnet’s 18,71% stake in cellular network operator MTN, for a total consideration of R4,3-billion or R13,89 a share.
Over bacon and eggs in Knightsbridge one morning, the pocket-size Slovenian President Milan Kucan admitted: "Slovenia’s football success is a surprise to the football world, but also to Slovenia."
For the first time in history, human society possessed the capacity and knowledge to eradicate poverty and underdevelopment, South African President Thabo said on Monday.
At least 35 fighters of the Congolese Rally for Democracy/Liberation Movement (RCD-ML) died on Wednesday in clashes in the eastern DRC town on Bunia
After ordering most international demining groups to leave the country, the Eritrean government has set up its own demining authority.
THE Shell oil company said on Sunday that invaders were wreaking havoc at its natural gas plant in Utorogu in Nigeria’s southern Delta State.
Seventeen civilians were killed and scores of others wounded when government warplanes bombed four villages in southern Sudan at the weekend.
Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by foreign journalists to urgently revise a tough new media law they say infringes on press freedom.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) is expected to open flat to slightly weaker on Monday, taking its cue from the currency. Traders said that with no major economic data due out this week, the market is likely to look to the rand for direction.
The South African railway company Spoornet has begun assessing Mozambique’s Ressano Garcia railway line as it prepares to take over this important route linking the two neighbouring states.
The manner of Rushdi Magiet’s departure as convener of the South African selectors said much about the man.
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) holds its first national conference in five years at Stellenbosch University next week — with elections likely to indicate whether the left or "right-wing" of the movement holds sway.
An extremely rare whale, believed to be a Longman’s beaked whale, washed up on the South African coast this week.