Judgment on the bid by Cosatu’s Vavi to have his suspension set aside is expected to be delivered by the high court in Johannesburg on Friday.
During a visit to a teachers’ training college in Limpopo, the DA says it has discovered "warehouses still filled with undelivered textbooks".
There are fewer people living in poverty in SA, according to trends in poverty and inequality between 2006 and 2011, says the statistician general.
The ruling party has won a majority of wards in the latest by-elections, which were held in nine wards across five provinces, according to the IEC.
The IEC says it has received about 40 objections to election candidates and will consider all of them by next week.
Anglo American Platinum and Lonmin have sent force majeure notices to some suppliers of goods and services to its strike-affected operations.
President Jacob Zuma says he will give Parliament a "further report" on his Nkandla home once the SIU completes its investigation.
Missing steel bars needed to reinforce a beam holding a concrete slab at the ill-fated Tongaat mall were missing, an inquiry has found.
Judgment in the urgent application lodged by the ANC against the DA over a text message about President Jacob Zuma has been reserved.
The Higher Education and Training HIV Programme has backed plans to introduce colourful and flavoured condoms to tertiary institutions.