Around 50 inmates of the Groenpunt prison in Deneysville suffered minor injuries in a stampede when police entered the facility after a riot.
Calls for an international boycott of export fruit from South Africa are irresponsible, said the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The government says Nelson Mandela has recovered from a lung infection and gallstone surgery, which kept him in hospital for nearly three weeks.
The Correctional Services department has reported a total of 79.25% of prisoners who wrote national senior certificate examinations passed in 2012.
South African Airways received an emergency loan to cover fuel costs, preventing the grounding of its local and international flights, says a report.
Students who did not pass their matric have until January 21 to register for a re-marking or re-checking.
Malawi’s President Joyce Banda has assured the IMF that the southern African country will not backtrack on reforms to help the economy recover.
South Africa is facing a shortage of blood stocks as the national level dips to only a two-day supply, according to a newspaper report.
The driver involved in the collision that killed cyclist Burry Stander will appear in the Port Shepstone Magistrate’s Court on Monday, police said.
Cosatu and Agri-SA have blamed one another for stalled talks aimed at ending the Western Cape farm workers’ strike.