Not content with a 30-minute delay on broadcasts of foreign television channels, communist Vietnam has introduced a brazen new law which observers say could force media outlets such as the BBC and CNN to pay for their own censorship.
The family of SABC radio and television presenter Vuyo Mbuli on Saturday thanked South Africans for the support they received in the wake of his death, a spokeswoman for the family said.
Niger's president says suicide bombers who carried out simultaneous attacks on a military installation and a French-run uranium mine came from southern Libya.
Not content with a 30-minute delay on broadcasts of foreign television channels, communist Vietnam has introduced a brazen new law which observers say could force media outlets such as the BBC and CNN to pay for their own censorship.
A highly anticipated visit by US President Barack Obama is set to be soured by a row over whether Cape Town will be allowed to grant him and his wife, Michelle, the freedom of the city.
Kaizer Chiefs completed the league and cup double with a 1-0 win over Supersport United in the Nedbank Cup final at the Moses Mabhida Stadium on Saturday.
Union faces ‘force determined to remove it from the face of the earth’, says Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu
An autobiographical French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Investigators on Saturday were looking into allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was arrested for heaving a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.
British alternative rock band Muse has hinted at releasing a song for upcoming apocalyptic zombie horror film ‘World War Z’.
‘Inferno’ - The astonishing new thriller from the bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol.
A long-awaited report on workplace wellness programs, which has still not been publicly released, delivers a blow to the increasingly popular efforts, Reuters has learned, casting doubt on a pillar of the Affordable Care Act and a favourite of the business community.
A long-awaited report on workplace wellness programs, which has still not been publicly released, delivers a blow to the increasingly popular efforts, Reuters has learned, casting doubt on a pillar of the Affordable Care Act and a favourite of the business community.
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.
Sally Howard travels the mighty Mississippi - from New Orleans to Memphis - in a 'floating antebellum mansion'
Imagine a fairly large family sedan with a 1.8-litre engine, airbags, electric windows and mirrors, pleasant styling, a big boot, aircon, a sound system and a five-year/100000km warranty.
Ameth Diagne was asleep when the first waves lapped at his back door, the lukewarm, salty water seeping into his bedroom an impassive portent of the final days of his 650-year-old fishing community.
The Times Editorial: President Jacob Zuma has finally found his voice on Guptagate - two weeks after the scandal which has made our government's name mud.
The whiff of skulduggery is everywhere. From lowly cable filching, through Fidentia fraud, to favour-peddling in high office, the pong is pervasive.
The Times Editorial: President Jacob Zuma has finally found his voice on Guptagate - two weeks after the scandal which has made our government's name mud.
You might think that the Gupta scandal, which has dominated the public discourse over the last month and which was the subject of an exchange of rhetoric in parliament this week, is the single biggest issue facing South Africa.
Reports that the collapse of Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act (AARTO) is imminent is good news for motorists.
But, then again, we should not be surprised.
It is, after all, the taxpayer who has been footing the bill for South African Airways' blunders - and, it seems, will continue to do so. -
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