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Traffic police officers receiving bribes have changed tack to escape renewed efforts to fight corruption. The officers are now using money transfer services offered by mobile phone companies to conceal the bribes they receive on the highway. The money is...

Education MEC Donald Grant on Thursday attended a memorial service for two Oude Molen matriculants who died in a car crash last week. Darren Hoffman and Roqeeb Isaacs were described as inseparable friends. They had just completed their second physical...

Congo — The United Nations says at least four of its peacekeepers have been wounded in northern Congo after a U.N. helicopter was attacked by armed men. Madnodje Mounoubai, a spokesman for the U.N. mission in Congo, said the wounded...

Continent Looks Beyond 'War On Terror' Ernest Harsch 25 November 2009 The government of Mali declared in early June that it would mount a "merciless struggle" against terrorist forces operating in the country's far northern desert. President Amadou Toumani Touré...

Bosco Mutangana, head of the unit tracking those suspected of involvement in the 1994 killings, told the BBC they all had files and arrest warrants. But he said hundreds of "fugitives" were living in Southern Africa despite many diplomatic attempts...

An armed movement calling itself the Patriots-Resistance of Dongo on Friday claimed responsibility for firing at a United Nations helicopter in the Equateur province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "The patriots-resistance have again inflicted a resounding failure on...

It happened just less than an hour ago," spokesperson Vernon Mchunu said shortly after 3pm. Almost two weeks ago storms hit parts of the province, causing damage worth more than R340-million and claiming eight lives. The province was still trying...