The shooting of a Durban taxi boss's brother left police admitting on Thursday they are no closer to solving a spate of at least 15 drive-by shootings.
President Thabo Mbeki insisted this week that he had no prior warning of xenophobic violence, but he was flatly contradicted by a group of Congolese and Rwandan refugees in Cape Town.
A woman sitting on a basket quietly stirs a pan of spinach on a paraffin stove. Children run around noisily between plastic bags, suitcases, blankets and mattresses.
The ANC Youth League faces yet another crisis after five of its provincial structures rejected Luthuli House's endorsement of its controversially elected top five officials.
Tensions that triggered a backlash against foreigners last month are likely to simmer for years as South Africa's poor domestic skills base forces it to rely on migrant labour.
Ordinary citizens in KwaZulu-Natal who are growing increasingly tired of blue-light bullying on roads by politicians and other Ridiculously (self-) Important People appear to be taking matters into their own hands.
The South African under-17 team lost their first-ever match on artificial turf at home when Zimbabwe beat them 2-1 in an international friendly at the FNB Wadley Stadium in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday.
That Bruce Lyle and his built-from-scratch fertiliser business, Nutri-Flo, has survived its nine-year fight against Sasol with the competition authorities so far is remarkable.
A man who killed centenarian Herbert (Bob) Downs by stabbing him six times in Downs' home in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal, was jailed for life by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday.
The government has identified at least 27 cases where a syndicate has swindled more than R199-million from government departments in four provinces over the past three years -- using cyber-spyware.
No date has yet been fixed for the Judicial Services Commission's (JSC) meeting to consider new allegations against Cape Judge President John Hlophe, the JSC's secretary said late on Monday. "Right now they are still trying to find a date," said commission secretary Vuyelwa Masangwana.
About 142 court cases linked to xenophobic violence have been opened countrywide, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Tlali Tlali said 102 of these were in Gauteng. Provincial police liaison officers approached said none of the 142 cases had reached the conviction stage yet.
Cape Town Judge President John Hlophe must step down, political parties said on Sunday. Hlophe is accused of attempting to influence the Constitutional Court's decision over search-and-seizure raids carried out by the Scorpions on properties of Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturing giant Thint.
