South Africa News

With Leonard Neill: South Africa has a new junior middleweight champion. Or rather, it's the former champion back on the throne.

Three years after the end of one of Africa's longest wars, the United Nations says half of Angola's children are malnourished and in some areas the growth of over 50 percent is seriously stunted.

Aitkanti the sea turtle has already braved fishing nets and shark infested waters in her swim from breeding grounds in South America but is only half way to the rich feeding waters off the coast of West Africa.

Looking for a really good piece of nougat? Chances are you won't go to the extremes Sally Williams, a renowned South African cooking instructor for 25 years, did.

Insurers have welcomed the signing of the Road Accident Fund Amendment Bill as a "positive first step on the road to ensuring the future survival" of the fund.

By Basildon Peta Zimbabwe's embattled civic groups and the opposition will meet this week to try to work out a new strategy to confront the Mugabe regime after it railroaded a new set of constitutional ...3.1

Business: 13 September 2005, Tuesday. Bulgaria was rated sixty-sixth in an annual report of the World Bank, which provides a global ranking of 155 nations on key business regulations and reforms.2.7

By Farook Khan Veteran political activist Asha Rambally said in Durban yesterday South Africa had to re-commit to Steve Biko's principles.2.7

New national cricket coach Mickey Arthur spelt out his key elements for success in sport - and life - recently when he addressed those who gathered for the annual school sports dinner at Westville Boys' High ...2.7

This piece aims to address the fixed telephone network problem in relation to the planned privatization of the Nigeria Telecommunications Limited by the federal government before the end of the year.2.7

THE typical English summer consists of a few scorching hot days, much drizzly rain and grown men in replica football kits searching the more obscure reaches of the TV satellite and the Spanish costas for any ...2.1

Quality and rarity will cost you a long walk and a pretty penny at the new Harlem Citarella, at 125th and Amsterdam.

Schalk Burger has told Western Province coach Kobus van der Merwe that he wants to play against the Blue Bulls at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.2.7

Transport department spokeswoman Wendy Watson believes more than half of all drivers in South Africa have forged licences or licences issued against forged licences from other African states.2.7

KEVIN PIETERSEN toasted the best day of his life after his maiden Test hundred sealed England's first Ashes success for 18 years.3.1

A condom is part of love. Thats the message in this anti-AIDS poster in Maputo, Mozambique.

POLICE investigating gangsterism in Nelson Mandela Bay's northern suburbs have called on the area's tavern owners to help with the probes as residents are too afraid to speak up.2.7

The Mexican government has closed a legal loophole that has allowed thousands of Brazilian nationals to illegally enter the United States over the last two years.

Lucknow-based Sahara Computers and Electronics Ltd , a joint venture between the South African IT major, Sahara Computers , and Sahara India Pariwar, has signed a MoU for the acquisition of SES Technologies, ...2.7

AN elderly Summerstrand woman is in intensive care in hospital after being beaten up in her home by two young intruders at the weekend.2.7

Skepticism prevails among human rights activists over the capability of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in handling unresolved rights abuse cases because the law dealing with it is considered far from ...

By Thokozani Mtshali ANC leaders in KwaZulu-Natal believe they can breathe a little easier after the party's national executive committee's decision to force President Thabo Mbeki and his former deputy, Jacob ...4

Chef Matthew Kemp in Restaurant Balzac. Photo: Jane Dyson Two years after it closed, one stand-out restaurant still feeds Sydney.2.9

A MAGNIFICENT knock of 90 at Edgbaston was one of three half-centuries. The Somerset left-hander was second highest run scorer.2.9

Adriano scored three goals to help defending Brazil rout Chile 5-0 Sunday and clinch its 18th straight World Cup appearance.1.3

The powerful Hammers striker could have spent most of the season languishing on the bench if Czech international Milan Baros had not snubbed a move to West Ham in favour of Aston Villa.2.9

NEW YORK, September 13 : Munir Akram, the permanent representative of Pakistan in UN hoped that Pak-India will take more bold steps for settling bilateral disputes including the core issue of Kashmir after the ...2.9

The government of the United States is a dictatorship from the point of view of the ideology of bourgeois democracy because the George W. Bush blatantly refuses to play by the rules that govern the democratic ...2.9

Finis Shelnudt, 53, sat in the street at a lone cafe table decorated with Mardis Gras beads and an empty bottle of champagne, ready for the party he believes will soon resume in storm-ravaged New Orleans.2.1

PESHAWAR, September 13 : Security Forces Monday launched major search operation at Haqqani Madrassah at Dnade Darpakhel and two other places of North Waziristan Agency and apprehended 15 wanted terrorists ...1.3

The head of the Roma studies seminar Doc. Milena Hubschmannova, CsC died tragically in a car accident in South Africa in the town Kameeldrift, which is North of Pretoria.2.9

A project to manufacture diesel from soya beans would provide widespread opportunities to farmers and entrepreneurs, the chief executive of the project said today.2.7

ISLAMABAD, September 13 : Rejecting the Madaris registration ordinance once again Ittehad-e-Tanzemat Madaris Deenia on Monday refused to register Madaris and announced to hold a Tahafuz-e-Madaris Convention at ...2.9

Let's get the nit-picking about "The Lion King" quickly out of the way. A couple of the nine songs that were added when the popular Disney animated film was adapted for the stage feel like unnecessary padding.

In the past two years we have seen significant media and public interest in the life and work of Es'kia Mphahlele, despite the fact that Mphahlele, who turns 86 this year, has been writing all his adult life.2.7