South Africa, Africa

THE MEC for Health, Pemmy Majodina, is to visit health facilities across the province to assess their infrastructural needs. Eastern Cape Health...

THE Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has suspended a researcher over a presentation he never got to deliver . Dr Anthony Turton...

WHILE the state ignores Priscilla Jantjies, who was left paralysed by a botched dental operation, the people of East London have opened their hearts...

SPORTS Minister Makhenkesi Stofiles Department of Sports and Recreation is in a financial mess, according to the Auditor- General . The department...

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was awarded the Fulbright Prizefor International Understanding on Friday from the US State Departmentfor his work in...

Sarietjie Musgrave, a Grade 10 Teacher from the Free State, hasbeen recognised as one of the world's most innovative teachers inMicrosoft's 2008...

They may appear peaceable, ponderous, even rather loveable creatures, but hippopotamuses react with a dangerous and bloody savagery if they are...

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, October 30, 2008 (IRIN) - The South African government should aim for free universal education, backed up by teacher training...

JOHANNESBURG Friday, November 07, 2008 (IRIN) - A new study estimates that more than 330,000 HIV-positive South Africans lost their lives between...

JOHANNESBURG Friday, November 07, 2008 (IRIN) - On paper, South Africa has some of the world's best HIV workplace programmes, but on the ground they...