South Africa's top cop going on leave
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South Africa's national police commissioner, who faces charges of corruption and trying to protect a convicted drug smuggler, has gone on extended leave, the president said Saturday.
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HARARE : Zimbabwean immigration officials ordered a fact-finding mission from South Africa&#39;s biggest trade union movement to leave after they defied a government ban, the leader of the South African team said.
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South Africa&#39;s vice-captain Nicky Boje has pulled out of the team to tour India next week because he has not been given any assurance by the Indian Police that he would not be arrested in connection with the 2000 match-fixing saga.
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Former anti -corruption chief, John Githongo, who resigned yesterday is staying on in London, The Standard can reveal.
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A senior Hong Kong hospital official who was criticized for his performance during the SARS crisis will resign at the end of the year.
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The final one-day match between Pakistan and South Africa will be shifted after the Proteas declined to play in troubled Karachi for security reasons, an official said Wednesday.
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Eric Simons, South Africa&#39;s coach, is seriously considering giving up his job. Upset with the performance of his team in the recent Test series against Sri Lanka, Simons has decided to assess his position at the end of the ICC Champions Trophy in England.
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NAIROBI -- Kenya's top anticorruption official quit yesterday, dealing the biggest blow so far to President Mwai Kibaki's election pledge to root out public corruption hobbling East Africa's largest economy.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki is determined to work hard to end the conflict in Ivory Coast and is likely to spend up to three days there next week, his spokesman said on Wednesday.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa, Dec. 20 -- The top prosecutor in South Africa signaled Thursday that criminal charges would soon be filed against the ruling party's newly elected leader, Jacob Zuma, complicating a comeback that has taken Zuma from political outcast to presidential favorite.
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The leader of the main opposition party in South Africa, Tony Leon, is to step down after 13 years.
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Outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived Thursday in Johannesburg on the final leg of his farewell tour of Africa ahead of his departure from office next month.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa South African police say Mark Thatcher was planning to leave South Africa for Dallas when he was arrested in an alleged coup plot.
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Charges against the man investigating South African police chief Jackie Selebi are dropped.
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One person is killed during angry clashes between police and protesters in South Africa, police say.
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THE body of slain Australian policeman Adam Dunning will be flown back to his hometown of Canberra today following a memorial service at the headquarters of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
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J. Cofer Black, the State Department official in charge of counterterrorism, is leaving government in the next few weeks.