Tax havens used by major international firms are depriving impoverished African states of tens of billions of dollars each year, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan said.
The inhumane and degrading treatment of African foreign nationals is a threat to democracy and freedom in South Africa, Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor said.
Formula One’s governing body accused the Mercedes team on Thursday of breaking the rules by testing in Spain with tyre supplier Pirelli last month and benefiting from their involvement.
At least five people have been injured in a stampede after fans stormed a stadium gate upon the arrival of superstar David Beckham at a Chinese university Thursday afternoon.
At least five people have been injured in a stampede after fans stormed a stadium gate upon the arrival of superstar David Beckham at a Chinese university Thursday afternoon.
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.
Beautiful, provocative and glamorous images like these, some taken in the first half of the 20th century by the most famous names in the history of photography not only capture their time but our imagination.
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.
The first carbon-fiber bodied convertible in Aston Martin's history, the Vanquish Volante manages to retain its hard-top counterpart’s performance figures while increasing the style.
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,...
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.
Duncan Ferguson, 84, a former railway worker, amateur genealogist and renowned collector of Cradock memorabilia Image by: BRAM LAMMERS
A hotel worker delivers flowers to one of Die Tuishuise, restored Victorian cottages on Market Street, Cradock Image by: BRAM LAMMERS
An early nineteenth-century hot-water bottle, used by Boer settlers in the area, displayed in the Great Fish River Museum Image by: BRAM LAMMERS
Graffiti carved by a British soldier in the Anglo-Boer War who was stationed on this koppie overlooking Cradock Image by: BRAM LAMMERS
The Great Fish River winding through Cradock. For decades, it marked the frontier between colonial territory and the Xhosa chiefdoms Image by: BRAM LAMMERS
Once home to poet Guy Butler and writer Olive Schreiner - famed for her A Story Of An African Farm - Cradock has escaped the decay that has affected so many other Platteland towns. Photographer Bram Lammers stopped in for a look
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