South Africa’s platinum-mining stock gauge is headed for the lowest level in more than seven years.
The Competition Commission has approved Times Media Group’s acquisition of Pearson’s 50% share in BDFM, publishers of Business Day.
President Michel Djotodia has declared three days of mourning after 37 people were killed when a gold mine collapsed in Ndassima.
The ANC Youth League has expelled its spokesperson Floyd Shivambu because he "made it his full-time job to undermine the organisation".
US President Barack Obama’s South African schedule does not include a visit to former president Nelson Mandela, who is critically ill in hospital.
A few cars have been seen at the Mandela family gravesite in Qunu, while the relatives called an urgent meeting in the village to brief the elders.
"Violence, intimidation and lawlessness" need to be expunged from the troubled mining sector, says Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.
Close relatives of former president Nelson Mandela and chiefs of the Abathembu royal family have gathered at his home in Qunu, in the Eastern Cape.
A new set of experimental laws will be implemented in all local competitions, the South African Rugby Union has confirmed.
With Sam Taylor-Johnson signed to direct "Fifty Shades of Grey", this adaptation might aim to be more than a quick buck turned from moviegoers.