An urgent application by former president FW de Klerk for the Pretoria High Court to set aside a subpoena directing him to testify for the defence in the Boeremag trial is to be heard on Friday.
Trade union Solidarity will meet with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) on Wednesday in order to discuss which line of protest action they will embark upon in the metal and engineering industry.
Former Western Cape environment and development affairs MEC David Malatasi approved a housing development after he had already left office, according to a High Court judge.
A Rustenburg father who admitted that he had broken his two young children’s necks before trying to commit suicide blamed his former wife for his deed, claiming that it would never have happened if she had not left him.
A breast-feeding baby, his back sliced with shrapnel wounds cries out for milk. His mother lies listlessly next to him with nothing to offer. Most of her chest has been blown off.
Initiate deaths have risen more than 100% since laws were put in place two years ago to curb the deaths and injuries. Since 1998 a total of 129 initiates have died as a result of botched circumcisions in the Eastern Cape.
The head of a young woman was found floating in an East Rand dam on Monday and divers were searching for the missing body, police said.
South Africa has caught the global call centre fever and is capitalising on a trend that has seen international companies, particularly UK and US-based firms, outsourcing their labour intensive call centres (telephonic customer interface hubs) to countries that can provide inexpensive, quality alternatives.
A girls’ night out has become official policy in a small southern Spanish town after the mayor announced yesterday he would ban men from going out on a Thursday night.
More than 20 civilians, mostly women and children, have been massacred in a horrific manner in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), French military officials in the troubled region said on Monday.