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The last non-executive state president from the apartheid era, Marais Viljoen, was buried on Saturday with the full honours reserved for South African statesmen. At a funeral…
The plight of grade 11 pupils who failed last year is the biggest challenge facing education in South Africa in 2007, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) said on…
The Choice on the Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Amendment Act and the Traditional Health Practitioners Act were declared invalid by the Constitutional Court on Thursday. A…
The justice system is failing children because an important Bill that will protect the rights of children has virtually disappeared since 2003. This emerged on Wednesday at the…
The Siamese twin girls born in the Arwyp hospital in Kempton Park on Wednesday night are doing well, the hospital said on Friday night. Hospital superintendent Wiam Stander said…
The notorious information scandal of the 1970s was never sufficiently probed, according to a report into corruption under the apartheid government released on Monday. The…
This week the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> reveals National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s links to shadowy figures associated with slain businessman Brett Kebble. Our…
There is no crisis in the African National Congress, the party’s deputy president Jacob Zuma told the National Union of Mineworkers on Wednesday. ”Many commentators and analysts…
South Africans have become used to voting, a political analyst said about Wednesday’s quiet and uneventful local government elections. ”We are used to voting by now and local…
The death toll in the powerful quake that hit Mozambique on Thursday morning was still uncertain by Thursday afternoon, with authorities still visiting rural areas to assess the…
The death toll in the powerful quake that hit Mozambique on Thursday morning was still uncertain with authorities still visiting rural areas to assess the impact there. Up to two…
A general dealer voluntarily evacuated his shop and a Standerton street was closed to traffic, as was a dirt road in a nearby township on Thursday, as water was released from the…
A possible flood emergency at Standerton in Mpumalanga has not materialised after less water flowed into the Grootdraai Dam than expected, authorities said on Wednesday…
Search-and-seizure raids by the Scorpions at the offices of Jacob Zuma’s former attorney Julekha Mahomed were ruled illegal by the Johannesburg High Court on Friday. Judge Ismail…
The National Prosecuting Authority on Wednesday denied any wrongdoing in the raid on a former attorney of Jacob Zuma. The NPA told the Johannesburg High Court that it had…
Arguments in an application by one of former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s attorneys regarding the Scorpions raid on August 18 will be heard in the Johannesburg High Court next…
Despite his advancing years and his stint in prison for assault, Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader Eugene Terre’blanche is still an imposing figure. ”The rest of my…
About 80 000 mineworkers will down tools on Sunday night for the first strike in the gold sector since 1987, the National Union of Mineworkers said on Tuesday. This came after at…
Politician Patricia de Lille said on Friday she was aware that the three women suing her had retracted their complaints about a clinical Aids trial in which they participated.…
Randburg Magistrate Deon Pool lashed out at nightclubs in the Rivonia area on Tuesday. As 29-year-old Ashley Ginder — accused of beating up a student at the Tiger Tiger club in…
