A meeting between President Jacob Zuma and top African National Congress (ANC) officials is understood to be on the cards today to discuss the appointment of a new national director of public prosecutions now that the...
Johannesburg — South Africans are dying younger and in greater numbers, and HIV/AIDS is to blame, according to a report released this week by the South African Institute of Race Relations. Average life expectancy declined from...
As was the case in South Africa's elections in April 2009 and later, in November in Mozambique, their respective ruling parties and governments grew out of tried-and-tested struggle movements, taking charge from their former...
ANC Youth League President, Julius Malema has again rejected a call for former president Thabo Mbeki to be charged with genocide over his HIV/Aids policies. Malema was speaking at the funeral of Free State government...
opinion Johannesburg — WILLIAM Gumede and Leslie Dikeni's fascinating new collection of essays, The Poverty of Ideas, sheds fresh light on the changing role of intellectuals in post-apartheid SA. Chapters by a dazzling array of...
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Nov 22 2009 06:36 Former National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli will receive R7,5-million after reaching an out-of-court settlement with the government, the Presidency announced on...
JOHANNESBURG, 21 November 2009 (IRIN) - South Africans are dying younger and in greater numbers, and HIV/AIDS is to blame, according to a report released this week by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
column Kampala — The Mo Ibrahim Award for excellence in African leadership has in its short lifetime become one of the world's most talked about honours. It offers the largest cash prize of its kind with winners receiving US$5...
Harare (AFP) Nov 19, 2009 - Zimbabwe's government and a Chinese investment company have signed an eight billion dollars investment deal, the biggest since the unity government was set up, state media reported on Thursday.
New faces of militancy in Cosatu have emerged following the expulsion of Willie Madisha from Cosatu, the quiet retreat of its general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi from the forefront, and the changing nature of the relationship...