08/02/2010 at 18:43:45 - Vehicle insurance is becoming mandatory in Angola this week, costing on average 400 dollars for a small car every year.

08/02/2010 at 17:33:38 - Many Africans with malaria are getting low-grade drugs, according to a study of Uganda, Senegal and Madagascar.

08/02/2010 at 17:32:54 - War crimes charges against a Darfur rebel leader are dropped by International Criminal Court judges.

08/02/2010 at 17:10:26 - Rice for the people - what would you do as leader?

08/02/2010 at 16:38:02 - Somali fishermen save some 126 migrants who were reportedly forced into the sea at gunpoint by traffickers.

08/02/2010 at 12:31:55 - Ivory Coast will play fellow World Cup finalists South Korea in a friendly in London on 3 March.

08/02/2010 at 11:37:44 - What links John Lennon and Nelson Mandela?

08/02/2010 at 10:03:50 - Chad's President Idriss Deby makes a surprise trip to Sudan - his first since 2004 - for talks on Darfur.

Today at 01:01:24 - Up to six million cases of fraud are committed each month via stolen salary slips and false documents.

08/02/2010 at 23:50:55 - Authorities in Connecticut are searching for the cause of a massive explosion that killed five workers at an unfinished energy plant.

08/02/2010 at 23:25:25 - Doctors are still treating trauma patients nearly a month after the earthquake that devastated Haiti.

08/02/2010 at 23:20:35 - Former Alaska governor and one-time Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has come under fire for referring to notes penned on her palm during a key speech this week.

08/02/2010 at 22:25:39 - Mpumalanga police arrested 21 people for public violence after shops were looted and roads were barricaded in Balfour.

08/02/2010 at 22:07:45 - An off-duty police officer has been shot through the ear during a hijacking in Mpumalanga, according to his colleagues.

08/02/2010 at 19:06:05 - A US soldier has been arrested and charged with child assault for waterboarding his daughter because she couldn't recite the alphabet.

08/02/2010 at 19:06:05 - The leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas says he sees "no prospects" for a Mideast peace settlement.

08/02/2010 at 19:05:33 - The chaos in Gauteng cricket deepened when Neil McKenzie was sacked after six years as captain of the struggling Lions.

08/02/2010 at 17:51:26 - Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop singer's death.

08/02/2010 at 17:48:14 - The United States and the European Union have expressed concern over the potential for a renewed crackdown by the Iranian government.

08/02/2010 at 17:48:14 - Rather than spending Valentine's Day with their partner, one-fifth of adults would prefer to be with their pet, according to a global poll.

08/02/2010 at 19:02:00 - Cosatu in Mpumalanga today blamed private schools run by "greedy capitalists" for the leaking of matric exams papers in the province. "It is mostly the private schools that encourages this tendency be ...

08/02/2010 at 18:56:00 - A 65-year-old man was arrested today after he became angry at council officials and threw their computers around, said Ekurhuleni metro police. Inspector Mveli Nhlapo said the man went to the city cou ...

08/02/2010 at 18:46:00 - Rapid and chaotic urbanisation is threatening sustainable development in Africa, the head of the UN housing agency said today, but taking steps to mitigate climate change could help tackle some of the ...

08/02/2010 at 16:33:00 - Business Unity South Africa (Busa) and Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica have agreed to collaborate to meet national greenhouse gas targets, Busa said today.

08/02/2010 at 16:30:00 - Netcare Travel Clinics have warned that people should not under-estimate the influenza which has killed at least 15 000 people globally. This year's seasonal vaccine will contain components that will ...

08/02/2010 at 17:59:57 - WILDFIRES continued to rage in the southern Cape today with 180 veld and forest fire-fighters on the ground beating back flames at seven different blazes, authorities said.

08/02/2010 at 12:20:44 - The case against four men accused of murdering of an Egyptian hawker was postponed in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Monday.

08/02/2010 at 11:59:20 - THE SACCI Business Confidence Index (BCI) for January declined by another 2.3 index points from 83.5 in December to 81.2 in January.

08/02/2010 at 10:41:44 - ANGLO Platinum (Angloplat, AMS), the world's largest platinum producer, today reported a 95% fall in diluted headline earnings per share to 297 cents for the year to end December 2009 from 5,586 cents ...

08/02/2010 at 10:08:30 - The upward trend continues, but in real terms, the value is actually dropping if inflation is taken into account.

08/02/2010 at 16:08:01 - At least nine people have been killed and 14 others wounded in heavy shelling in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, according to a human rights group.

07/02/2010 at 08:38:01 - South Africa's president has apologized for fathering a child out of wedlock after his admission prompted an outcry from critics who said he was undermining the nation's health campaign.

06/02/2010 at 20:38:01 - A French aid worker was freed Saturday nearly three months after his abduction near Chad's border with Sudan, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.

05/02/2010 at 17:38:01 - NATO forces recaptured a ship Friday that had been taken over by armed Somali pirates, a spokesman for the European Union Naval Forces told CNN.

05/02/2010 at 14:38:01 - The African Union has called on the United Nations Security Council to delay war crimes proceedings against Sudan's president, saying a decision allowing genocide charges harms peace efforts.

08/02/2010 at 15:33:47 - High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality  raising fears of increased drug resistance to a killer disease. Malaria - Dr ...

05/02/2010 at 21:04:57 - The son of ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor is ordered by a federal judge to pay $22.4 million in damages to five Liberians who were tortured during West Africa's civil war. Africa - Cha ...

05/02/2010 at 18:08:43 - Danish special forces disrupted the takeover by pirates of a cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, in a maneuver rarely undertaken by NATO warships, a naval spokesman said. Gulf of Ade ...

03/02/2010 at 21:41:11 - Foreign dictators, high-living bureaucrats and arms dealers are still able to funnel millions of dollars in potentially corrupt money into the United States despite post-Sept. 11 laws cracking down on ...

03/02/2010 at 16:22:13 - The International Criminal Court will again consider charging Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with genocide in Darfur, after an appeals panel ruled that judges made an "error in law" when they refus ...

08/02/2010 at 13:37:00 - Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula number two Said al-Shihri has called for attacks against United States interests "everywhere".

08/02/2010 at 13:22:00 - The US and France said on Monday they would push for new UN sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme.

08/02/2010 at 04:11:00 - Iran has declared it will begin enriching its uranium stockpile to a higher level, further raising fears over the country's nuclear ambitions.

07/02/2010 at 04:09:00 - The US military has vowed to help Haiti as long as needed while the Caribbean nation struggles to feed up to a million people.

07/02/2010 at 03:35:00 - Anti-whaling activists and Japanese harpoonists have blamed each other for a collision between their ships in Antarctic waters.

08/02/2010 at 05:10:36 - Tickets for the World Cup semi-finals and final, as well as two of England's first round matches in South Africa, have sold out, FIFA said on Friday. FIFA said there were no more tickets for En ...

08/02/2010 at 04:57:54 - South Africa is the best performing housing market in the world over the longer-term, latest figures from British news magazine The Economist reveal.

08/02/2010 at 04:41:55 - A multimillion rand sponsorship has been announced for the Sanlam Kay Motsepe Cup over the next five years. The sponsors hope this will help develop and identify young talent in the high school socc ...

08/02/2010 at 03:48:50 - Lyric soprano Pumeza Matshikiza is the 2010 winner of the sixth Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, a critically acclaimed opera contest in Dublin, Ireland.

05/02/2010 at 08:19:52 - The SA Good News Weekly Newsletter will be sent out on Mondays.