President Jacob Zuma has urged delegates at the UN climate summit in Durban to work for an outcome that was "fair and credible".

Separate reports on the so-called Oilgate scandal, one before Parliament and the other tabled last year, directly contradict each other, the Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday. The two reports are in "stark contrast", said DA MP Anchen Dreyer in a statement.

If Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will not step down voluntarily he should be removed by force, said senior Cope member Philip Dexter on Tuesday.

The answer, sang folk musician Bob Dylan in the Sixties, back when the world was a less polluted place, is blowing in the wind.

FF+ leader Pieter Mulder gave the hornet's nest on land ownership a poke when he said "bantu-speakers" had no historical claim to 40% of the country.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Wednesday passed wide-ranging criticisms of President Jacob Zuma and his administration.

South African politicians joined hundreds of people who marched outside Parliament to protest against the controversial secrecy Bill.

There is "merit" in carrying out some fracking for shale gas in the Karoo, environmental affairs director-general Nosipho Ngcaba says.