Muslims are on tenterhooks after the Saudi Arabian Ministers Council resolved to reduce the number of visas issued to South Africans for the annual pilgrimage - known as hajj - to Mecca by 20%.
The Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (Imatu) and the SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) walked out of negotiations with the SA Local Government Association (Salga) on Wednesday.
Mozambique opposition party Renamo threatened yesterday to paralyse the only railway line out of the country's vast coalfields in an effort to hurt the government.
The head of the US National Security Agency said covert surveillance had helped disrupt plans for more than 50 terrorist attacks since the September 11 2001 destruction of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Centre.
The Democratic Alliance will propose urgent amendments to the Labour Relations Amendment Bill in a bid to reopen debate on provisions that appear to be concessions to Cosatu, it said on Wednesday.
Israel Folau’s stunning rise in his third football code has been stamped with selection in Australia’s starting side for the first test against the British and Irish Lions in Brisbane on Saturday.
Technology firm says SkillsMap app, Africa’s first skills-targeted online recruitment service, will attract talent and tackle unemployment
Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were handed a 20-month suspended prison sentence and a heavy fine on Wednesday for hiding hundreds of millions of euros from the Italian tax authorities.
Actor Edward Furlong has been charged with assault after a May 21 incident in which his girlfriend called police and reported he attacked her.
Veteran rockers The Rolling Stones will be playing for over two hours at this year's Glastonbury festival it has been revealed.
Sunday Times is giving twenty lucky readers plus their partners the chance to attend the 'reincarnated' star studded 'Kings Of Chaos' concert happening at Sun City and at the Grand West in Cape Town.
Knysna resident Andre van Zijl hopes to raise awareness of HIV/Aids by sitting in a jacuzzi at Fourways Mall in Johannesburg for a record 300 hours.
Pregnant women who take an iron supplement twice a week receive the same health benefits as expectant mothers who take a daily dose of the essential mineral, new research showed Tuesday.
Top Italian chefs are clamouring for the resignation of a junior minister who dismissed the country’s cuisine as a poor copy of trendy French cooking, poking a sore spot in a long-held kitchen rivalry between the two nations.
A tiny Samoan airline says it will introduce an “XL” class for super-sized passengers, featuring extra-wide rows and special ramps to help them reach their seats.
Maybe the only positive spin-off from the country's shockingly high unemployment rate - and it will be cold comfort to the many people hanging about on street corners looking for work - is that the entrepreneurial route is often the only alternative.
The head of the US National Security Agency said covert surveillance had helped disrupt plans for more than 50 terrorist attacks since the September 11 2001 destruction of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Centre.
The Times Editorial: Waking on Friday morning, June 20 1913, the South African native found himself not actually a slave but a pariah in the land of his birth, Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, a highly respected intellectual and influential political leader of the time,...
If there's one thing the rainbow nation does particularly well, it is engaging in a spot of pessimism.
The Times Editorial: Waking on Friday morning, June 20 1913, the South African native found himself not actually a slave but a pariah in the land of his birth, Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, a highly respected intellectual and influential political leader of the time,...
Nigella Lawson, beautiful, clever and rich, is not the sort of woman we expect to be hit by her husband. And yet, here we are, gawking at photographs that apparently show Charles Saatchi with his hands around the heroine's throat - and her obvious, chilling terror.
As much as the country has changed, so, too, has it remained the same.
While the rest of the world loses sleep over whether Greece will default on its loan repayments and whether it should or shouldn't accept austerity measures imposed on them by other European Union countries, the leadership in South Africa is taking an artist to court over an artwork that is part of his exhibition.
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