The Department of Justice’s elite detective unit, the Scorpions, said it was investigating allegations of fraud and corruption at the SA Broadcasting Corporation’s Auckland Park headquarters.
The past two years has seen a ”discernible increase” in the number of youths involved in both violent and organised crime, Parliament’s social development portfolio committee heard this week.
Domestic and farm workers remain undervalued and exploited, despite their significant contribution to society, says Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana.
The indictment in South Africa of 10 Afrikaners this week for high treason has revived fears of right-wing militancy in the country, something last seen in the dying days of apartheid.
An impact report released this weekend has found that R8-billion was generated for the local economy during the Jo’burg World Summit.
Two hundred and fifty minibus taxis have been involved in fatal accidents so far this year, the New National Party (NNP) said on Sunday.
Chief executive officer of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, Peter Matlare, said on Sunday the SABC was dismayed at media coverage of allegations of wrongdoing in the commissioning of work to independent producers by the SABC.
The 25th anniversary of the death of Steve Bantu Biko, the Black Consciousness leader, was marked with the cleansing of a Port Elizabeth police cell where he was detained prior to his death.
The government’s new policy to introduce trophy hunting in national parks would be destructive to biodiversity, a report from the Xwe African Wild Life Investigation and Research Centre in Johannesburg has found.
The Jo’burg Summit is to get a dose of Madiba magic next week, when the former president is scheduled to make numerous appearances with world leaders attending the head of state portion of the event.