Mandela family feud casts shadow over birthday celebrationA MANDELA family feud involving the African National Congress party has cast a shadow over former South African president Nelson…Wed Jul 18 2012 - 01:00
South Africa halts distribution of 'blacklisted' HIV testing kitTHE DISTRIBUTION and use of 4Tue Jul 17 2012 - 01:00
Train hits truck in South Africa, killing 24 workersAT LEAST 24 farmworkers in South Africa were killed yesterday morning when the truck in whcih they were travelling was hit by…Sat Jul 14 2012 - 01:00
War veterans warn Angolan government against non-payment of pensionsTHOUSANDS OF Angola’s war veterans who have gathered in the country’s capital Luanda to protest against non-payment of pensions…Wed Jul 11 2012 - 01:00
Minister pledges mining licences to security forcesZIMBABWE’S MINING minister Obert Mpofu has publicly promised the country’s security forces he will give them gold, diamond and…Wed Jul 4 2012 - 01:00
New Zealand under-20 rugby tour player charged with rapeA MEMBER of the New Zealand under-20 rugby squad participating in the IRB Junior World Championship in Cape Town has been charged…Tue Jun 26 2012 - 01:00
Township crime triggers 'necklacing'VIGILANTE RESIDENTS in Cape Town’s largest township have turned to the apartheid-era practice of “necklacing” to tackle criminals…Tue Jun 26 2012 - 01:00
ANC conference likely to reveal fault lines on leadershipDELEGATES ATTENDING the African National Congress’s policy conference this week will debate South Africa’s economic future but…Mon Jun 25 2012 - 01:00
Court told of Rwandan leader's genocide linksA RWANDAN general who fled to South Africa two years ago has claimed in a court hearing in Johannesburg that his country’s current…Sat Jun 23 2012 - 01:00
A river runs below it: Africa's hidden reserveSCIENTISTS HAVE mapped the location of vast reservoirs of underground water across Africa that could be used to help counter …Fri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
ANC military veteran chiefs took funds for personal use - reportLEADERS OF the African National Congress’s former military wing have received hundreds of thousands of euros from its veterans…Sat Jun 16 2012 - 01:00
Army's pay withheld in diamond disputeTHE FINANCE ministry in Zimbabwe has upped the stakes in the battle to ensure the government benefits from the country’s Marange…Fri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Speculation in South Africa over INM's plansTHE ONGOING financial woes at Independent News and Media in Dublin has sparked widespread debate about media diversity in South…Thu Jun 14 2012 - 01:00
Malawi cancels summit plan over Sudan disputeTHE MALAWIAN government has said it will not host an African Union summit in July because the continental body has insisted that…Tue Jun 12 2012 - 01:00
Alliance's insistence on reform before elections a blow to Mugabe powerTHE HOPES of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe of extending his political career were dealt a blow last weekend by the decision…Tue Jun 5 2012 - 01:00
Telescope project may hinder frackingSOUTH AFRICA’S recent success in securing the majority of the world’s biggest radio telescope project has jeopardised the plans…Thu May 31 2012 - 01:00
Zimbabwe minister accuses politicians of looting gemsZIMBABWE’S FINANCE minister has publicly accused a small clique of top politicians of looting gemstones from the country’s controversial…Tue May 29 2012 - 01:00
S Africa to host most of world's biggest astronomy projectSOUTH AFRICA has won the right to host the vast majority of the world’s biggest astronomy project, a development local scientists…Mon May 28 2012 - 01:00
BBC presenter arrested for allegedly working without permit in ZimbabweA BBC Radio 3 classical music presenter arrested in Zimbabwe last Thursday for allegedly working without a permit remained in…Mon May 28 2012 - 01:00
Board recommends dismissal of SA police commissionerTHE CREDIBILITY of South Africa’s police leadership was dealt a significant new blow yesterday by reports that a board of inquiry…Sat May 26 2012 - 01:00
ANC lawyer breaks down in case to ban Zuma portraitTHE EMOTIONAL nature of the public debate surrounding a painting of South African president Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed…Fri May 25 2012 - 01:00
Farmhand convicted of murder of South African supremacistONE OF the two farmhands accused of beating to death white supremacist leader Eugene Terre’Blanche at his farmhouse in South …Wed May 23 2012 - 01:00
Malawi's president hopes to overturn anti-gay lawMALAWIAN PRESIDENT Joyce Banda has told the nation she intends to repeal the country’s ban on homosexuality along with a number…Mon May 21 2012 - 01:00
Court rules SA failing to provide textbooksSOUTH AFRICA’s dysfunctional state school system has come under scrutiny following a high court ruling on Thursday that the government…Sat May 19 2012 - 01:00
FW de Klerk views on separate states spark outrageAN INTERVIEW in which South Africa’s last white president, FW de Klerk, reportedly defended the notion of racially separate states…Mon May 14 2012 - 01:00
Ruling may force restrictions on accused Zimbabwe officialsZIMBABWEAN OFFICIALS accused of committing human rights abuses will have to think twice before travelling to South Africa in …Wed May 9 2012 - 01:00
Infighting at Zanu-PF as factions look to eventual controlTHE FACTIONALISM dividing the leadership in Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party has spread to its lower structures…Sat May 5 2012 - 01:00
Overcrowding could see over 35,000 prisoners released in South AfricaTHE SOUTH African government has said it could release more than 35,000 convicted criminals from their sentences over the coming…Tue May 1 2012 - 01:00
SA police refusing to patrol without gunsSOUTH AFRICA’S police unions have warned that the recent disarming by senior management of a fifth of the country’s 160,000- …Mon Apr 30 2012 - 01:00
ANC youth leader Malema loses expulsion appealSOUTH AFRICAN youth leader Julius Malema’s political career was left in ruins yesterday following the African National Congress…Thu Apr 26 2012 - 01:00
Shark kill provokes baiting criticismA DEADLY shark attack off a Cape Town beach on Thursday has sparked criticism of baiting methods used by a US filmmaker studying…Sat Apr 21 2012 - 01:00
Seven men accused of raping girl with mental age of fiveSEVEN YOUNG men from a South African township near Johannesburg raped a mentally disabled girl whom they kept as a sex slave, …Fri Apr 20 2012 - 01:00
Placing people faced with a lack of employment opportunities WILD GEESE Eimear Costigan Programme director of Cape Town branch of Connect-123WILD GEESE: EIMEAR COSTIGAN Programme director of Cape Town branch of Connect-123Fri Apr 20 2012 - 01:00
Youth arm risks ANC ire by backing suspended leaderTHE AFRICAN National Congress Youth League set itself on a collision course with South Africa’s ruling party at the weekend after…Tue Apr 17 2012 - 01:00
Malawi's new president fires predecessor's appointeesJOYCE BANDA, southern Africa’s first female president, has shown herself to be a woman of action by purging the Malawian government…Thu Apr 12 2012 - 01:00
Controversial Malawi president diesTHE CONTROVERSIAL president of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika, has reportedly died at a hospital in the capital Lilongwe, hours after…Sat Apr 7 2012 - 01:00
Decision of five African states to sell rhino horn criticisedA DECISION taken this week by five southern African countries to sell rhinoceros horn as a way to undermine poaching has been…Sat Mar 31 2012 - 01:00
'Dr Death' of apartheid era tells inquiry he was trying to save livesSouth African doctor Wouter Basson faces being struck off for creating deadly poisonsWed Mar 28 2012 - 01:00
Effort to cut road death rate in SATHE SOUTH African government wants to reduce the country’s horrific road traffic accident rate by charging drivers who cause …Tue Mar 20 2012 - 00:00
Harare minister warns of state shutdownZIMBABWE’S GOVERNMENT could shut down in the near future unless projected revenues from diamond sales begin to flow into the …Fri Mar 16 2012 - 00:00
Unlikely bedfellows emerge from hazy direction on land reformJOHANNESBURG LETTER : Putting an acrimonious past aside, an Afrikaner group rows in behind a community organisationMon Feb 27 2012 - 00:00
Institute predicts 20% fewer white people in South Africa by 2040BY 2040 there will be 20 per cent fewer white people living in South Africa than in 2010, a new report by the South African Institute…Thu Feb 2 2012 - 00:00
Scientific fixes come to fore as climate talks stallTHE NEWS that delegates attending climate talks in South Africa yesterday were to discuss various artificial techniques that …Sat Dec 3 2011 - 00:00
Small coffee farmers hoping for a wake-up call at climate talksIN A COUNTRY where political and economic stability have been difficult to sustain, one thing the Ugandan farmer Ngambe Ehab …Sat Nov 26 2011 - 00:00
South Africa's 'Dr Death' would like the past to stay in the pastCAPE TOWN LETTER: Anti-apartheid activists considered him one of their most ghoulish adversaries but Wouter Basson wants to …Thu Oct 20 2011 - 01:00
Tide turning slowly in South Africa's battle against violent crimeCAPE TOWN LETTER: THE NUMBER of murders in South Africa in the 12 months to March: 15,940Wed Sep 21 2011 - 01:00
Increase in funding cuts malaria deaths by 20%GLOBAL MALARIA deaths have fallen by nearly 20 per cent since 2000 due to a 15-fold increase in annual funding by 2010, UN-linked…Tue Sep 20 2011 - 01:00
Dublin brewer drawn to business culture of the CapeWILD GEESE: EMIGRANT BUSINESS LEADERS ON OPPORTUNITIES ABROAD: Diarmaid De Burca, General Manager, SABMiller’s Newlands Brewery…Fri Sep 9 2011 - 01:00
Bus kills at least 14 forced by thieves to lie on roadAT LEAST 14 bus passengers were killed in Nigeria on Tuesday night when a bus ran over them after they were forced to lie down…Thu Aug 4 2011 - 01:00
Harte murder case police officer has not seen forensic reportONE OF the main police officers involved in the Michaela Harte murder investigation yesterday told a preliminary inquiry he had…Sat Jul 2 2011 - 01:00