South Africa, Africa

AN APPROACH by SA President Kgalema Motlanthe has been shunned by Zimbabwes veteran president Robert Mugabe. Motlanthe, who described the political...

The mother of a little girl raped two years ago broke down and wept in the witness box yesterday when describing her daughters ordeal to the...

THE government has acknowledged that the Eastern Cape had the worst policing in the country. Portfolio committee chairperson on safety and security...

THE Department of Health has launched a 24-hour integrated call centre to deal with everything from emergency medical needs to complaints and...

CAPE TOWN Monday, November 24, 2008 (IRIN) - Sophia Morris, 36, a former shack dweller living about 15km from Cape Town, South Africa's second city,...

Perceptions of corruption are greatly influenced by racial prejudices. Only by breaking through prejudice and a predilection to judge things in...

The struggle to control tobacco has evolved into some kind of “fight for public opinion.” This is how an expert from Paraguay put it: “In order to...

The draw for the Confederations Cup took place at the SandtonConvention Centre in Johannesburg on Saturday, giving Bafana Bafana arealistic chance of...

THE ANC said it was dismayed and deeply concerned about allegedly inflammatory and defamatory remarks made by the Congress of the People (Cope). Cope...

EAST Londoners got to board one of the controversial arms-deal corvettes at the weekend. The 121m long SAS Mendi, the last of the four corvettes to...