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Thabo Mbeki to meet Mugabe as pressure mounts
Embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Saturday snubbed a regional summit in Zambia, called to resolve a tense electoral impasse in his country, as pressure...
South Africa : ‘Shoot to Kill’ gains Zuma support
JACOB Zuma, president of the ruling African National Congress is in full
support of the controversial "shoot to kill" proposed policy.
Speaking at...
Mugabe and Tsvangirai in a face to face confrontation
Heads of state of the Southern African sub-region will meet with Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugae on Saturday in Lusaka, Zambia to discuss the...
Rice embarrassed by Mandela’s terrorist status in the US
Nelson Mandela, the historic leader of the African National Congress (ANC), and his political party are still black-listed by the American authorities.
During the...
MDC and Makoni urge SADC to ask Mugabe to step down
The Zimbabwean Electoral Commission has been moved to a secret location and is now subject to national security.
from our correspondent in Harare...
Zambia calls for emergency SADC meeting to solve Zimbabwe impasse
Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa has summoned heads of state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for an extraordinary summit in Lusaka following what...
South Africa: Chris Hani remembered
The 15th anniversary of the assassination on liberation hero Chris Hani is due to be marked in South Africa Thursday.
Hani was shot dead...
Tibet crises forces South African everest climber to postpone expedition
A South African man's attempts to climb Mount Everest has been postponed due to circumstances surrounding the outbreak of the violence in Tibet. "China...
Microsoft’s Open XML joins HTML, PDF and ODF formats
Microsoft's Office Open XML, the world leader in softwares, recently certified by ISO (International Standardisation Organisation) and the CEI (International Electrotechnic Organisation), has met...
Zimbabwe : Five arrested for election fraud
Police in Zimbabwe said Tuesday they had arrested five election officials for allegedly tampering with votes in the disputed 29 March presidential poll. The...
Zuma meets Tsvangirai while Mugabe arrests ZEC officials
South Africa’s African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma is desperate to mediate on the Zimbabwean political impasse.
from our correspondent in Harare
The...
Netherlands and South Africa in bilateral agreement talks
South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, accompanied by Deputy Foreign Minister Sue van der Merwe, departed Monday for the Netherlands where she will hold...
South Africa worried about Zimbabwe stalemate
South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) Sunday called on President Thabo Mbeki to urgently consider requesting that the African Union's Peace and Security...
Zimbabwe : Uncovering Mugabe’s prelude to electoral fraud
As the drama of Zimbabwe's landmark March 29 election unfolds, Dianne Kohler Banard, Member of Parliament and spokesperson of the Democratic Alliance (DA) of...
Zimbabwe : Arrest of New York Times’ journalist fuels alarm
A global media freedom watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed alarm over the arrest and detention of "New York Times" correspondent, Barry...
Eighteen miners die in accident
Eighteen people died when a bus carrying Mozambican mine workers from South Africa to Mozambique over-turned and burst into flames T hursday morning, near...
Cricket: De Villiers and Kallis made South Africa dominate India !
AB de Villiers scored a maiden unbeaten double hundred and Jacques Kallis struck his 30th century to put South Africa in the driver's seat...
Air Corridor in trouble
The private Mozambican airline Air Corridor may never fly again because its two Boeing 737s are grounded in South Africa with serious safety problems,...
Stephen Keshi is Mali’s new national soccer coach
Former Nigerian International and Togo's ex-coach Stephen Keshi was Tuesday appointed the head coach of Mali's national football team. Under a deal he signed...
FIFA opens first medical centre for football in Africa
The inauguration of the first FIFA medical centre of excellence on African soil on Monday means football players on the continent will now know...
Two South African journalists arrested while covering election press conference, charged
According to Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), on 27 March 2008, two South Africans were arrested in Harare and charged with violating the...
Football: South Africa beats Paraguay
outh Africa's 2010 World Cup campaign received a massive boost after the Bafana Bafana thrashed visiting Paraguay 3-0 in an international soccer friendly at...
Preparatory work on poll fraud probe begins in Kenya
South African retired Judge Johann Kriegler, who is spearheading investigations into Kenya's flawed presidential polls, has embarked on preparatory work before tackling his first...
Diana wanted by two governments for crimes
A team from the Mozambican Criminal Investigation Po lice (PIC) and the Attorney General's Office have arrived in South Africa to negotiate the extradition...
Raising cancer awareness by climbing everest
A young mountain climber from Durban, South Africa, is aiming for the summit of Mount Everest so he can donate proceeds of his adventure...
Church of Scientology buys castle in Jo’burg
The Church of Scientology has acquired the famous Johannesburg landmark, the Kyalami Castle, to be the home of its new advanced spiritual retreat.
This marks...
‘Go’ and vote or be deported
Zimbabweans living in neigbouring countries have been urged to return to their native country to "flush out" Robert Mugabe. This has lead...
South Africa launches another World Cup legacy
A new initiative to lay artificial pitches in SA cities which will not be hosting 2010 matches has been launched in Pietermaritzurg, South Africa....
SA businessman against disbanding special crime unit
Johannesburg-based businessman Hugh Glenister is seeking from the Pretoria High Court an urgent prohibitive order against the South African government's plan to pass legislation...
Kenya: South African judge to head poll fraud investigation
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has formally appointed a team of electoral experts to undertake investigations into the disputed Presidential elections that saw him re-elected...