Former National Prosecuting Authority boss Vusi Pikoli has defended his claim that he was suspended to stop the probe into commissioner Jackie Selebi.
An outburst by an angry Judge Nkola Motata on Thursday in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s court earned him a rebuke from the magistrate.
Political parties are demanding answers after four prisoners, who were handcuffed and locked in leg irons, managed to make a bid for freedom.
A group of about 200 Zimbabweans gathered on Thursday outside the United States embassy in Harare, pleading for political asylum and food.
The National Intelligence Agency has not lost its credibility, Intelligence Services Minister Ronnie Kasrils said in Pretoria on Thursday.
The attacks on foreigners in the ”dark days of May” were not xenophobia, but ”naked criminal activity”, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday.
The Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences pilot project, including a demerit system for repeat offenders, was launched on Thursday.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa remained in intensive care in a French hospital on Thursday, his government said, denying reports that he had died.
Thieves have stolen a memorial headstone for Ian Curtis, frontman of the influential British post-punk band Joy Division.
Former DRC rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba arrived in The Netherlands on Thursday to face war-crimes charges before the International Criminal Court.