The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) moved to defend its political stance on Friday, saying it did not form part the ultra-left fringe.

An SA Airways employee tried to commit suicide after he was arrested for stealing laptops, cameras, cellphones and DVDs from airline passengers’ luggage, police said on Wednesday.

Crude language in an Aids awareness message, withdrawn by the public SABC after a recent complaint, reflects the way young people speak and act, said the head of the organisation driving it.

A 40-year-old SAA pilot arrested at Cape Town International Airport on Wednesday for being in possession of cocaine will appear in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court at 11am on Friday.

Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon said on Friday that Parliament’s new education bill, which if passed would mean the end of private school curricula, ran counter to the constitution’s democratic spirit.

A Zwelitsha man accused of disembowelling a woman by pulling her intestines through her rectum, which resulted in her death, was arrested on Saturday in King William’s Town.

Bruce Ramfolo has been appointed the Defence Department’s new acquisitions chief to replace Shamin ”Chippy” Shaik.

Aids activist Zackie Achmat, who is refusing antiretroviral treatment in protest against the government’s Aids policy, is more valuable alive than dead.

President Thabo Mbeki will on Wednesday sign the Electronic Communication and Transactions Bill into law, his office said on Tuesday.

Former University of South Africa (Unisa) professor Margaret Orr has accepted a settlement of
R150 000 offered by university counsel chairman McCaps Motimele, accused of sexually harassing her.