ZIMBABWE?S Roman Catholic bishops have lashed out at President Robert Mugabe’s government, and denounced the 15-month campaign of violence led by liberation war veterans loyal to…
THE African National Congress has backtracked and admitted that Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete damaged South Africa’s image by naming three prominent party members as…
SOUTH Africa’s most powerful trade union federation on Tuesday warned that they were planning a nationwide strike against privatisation, to take place in the next four months.…
THE Zimbabwe government has described as “uncorroborated” a report by an international panel of high-ranking lawyers who said that democracy and the rule of law in the country…
TONY Yengeni, chief whip of the ANC in Parliament, was apparently six weeks ago ordered by the investigation teams into alleged irregularities in the R43bn arms deal to present…
PAN Africanist Congress President Dr Stanley Mogoba says a poverty eradication tax is critical for all South Africans to be comfortable, calling poverty a time bomb which “might…
A PIONEERING deal between South Africa’s National Botanical Institute (NBI) and a US horticultural company which ?sells off the country?s botanical heritage? will be scrutinised…
PUBLIC Protector Selby Baqwa, Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka, Judge Fikile Bam of the Constitutional Court and various senior members of the ANC were privy to a…
SA COMMUNIST Party (SACP) general secretary Blade Nzimande has called for a massive consumer boycott of goods and services from farmers, shopkeepers and suppliers found to be…
JUSTICE Minister Penuell Maduna has lashed graft-busting Judge Willem Heath for suggesting the government is not dedicated to fighting corruption, saying his remarks sounded…
SLAUGHTERED by colonists, ruthlessly oppressed by South Africa’s apartheid regime and marginalised under the country’s young democracy, South Africa’s indigenous people, once…
ENVIRONMENTALISTS have reacted with fury and dismay to a White House decision not to back the Kyoto Protocol on global warming – a deal previously agreed by the Clinton…
SOUTH Africa’s largest trade union body, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), has pooh-poohed official statistics which suggest that the unemployment rate stands…
FORMER apartheid army general and politician Constand Viljoen has revealed how close South Africa came to civil war in 1994 shortly before the country’s first all-race elections,…
THE office of African National Congress Chief Whip Tony Yengeni says a statement might be issued on Sunday, following allegations that he mysteriously acquired a luxury vehicle,…
NAMIBIA?S President Sam Nujoma has called on police to arrest, deport and imprison gays and lesbians, saying homosexual behaviour was not permitted despite the country’s liberal…
ALTHOUGH the political violence which threatened to tear South Africa apart a few years ago is on the decline, the country remains plagued by other forms of violence, says the SA…
THE South African government says it turned down an offer of one million free HIV test kits because, among other reasons, the tests could create confusion among health personnel…
FINANCIAL services group Fedsure unveiled surprisingly poor annual results this week, casting a shadow over prospects for Investec bank, which is buying most of its business.…
HUMAN rights abuses, especially racism and xenophobia, are on the increase worldwide, says UN human rights chief Mary Robinson, who attacks Europe for becoming a “fortress”.…
