Recent media speculation that Executive Outcomes was involved in the current fighting in the Ivory Coast was erroneous as the company closed for business on 31 December 1998.
The SA National Defence Force was not optimally focused or appropriately equipped for its most likely tasks in the next five to ten years, an academic said on Thursday.
Johannesburg police were on Wednesday investigating a case of arson after the city almost lost another of its early 20th-century buildings on Tuesday night. A fire gutted the famous Marshall Street Barracks
The fraud and theft trial of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and broker Addy Moolman was postponed on Monday in the Pretoria Regional Court because she had a broken foot.
The foreign affairs department managed logistics for 27 international outgoing visits by President Thabo Mbeki and another 19 by Deputy President Jacob Zuma for the financial year ending on March 31.
South Africa’s financial contributions to international relief programmes in Africa had halved during the past three years from R12,1-million to R6-million.
A second man was arrested on Tuesday, three days after he and an accomplice allegedly stabbed a young farmer to death, police said on Wednesday.
Police detectives were still in Alexandra on Thursday night attempting to trace the last person wanted in connection with the kidnapping and murder of 20-year-old school pupil Paseka Simon Mokone earlier in the week.
The scanty media coverage of HIV-Aids in the absence of controversy was a failure of responsibility to the public, says Joel Netshitenze, Government Communications Information Service CEO.
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa welcomed three defecting councillors into his camp at a ceremony held at Tsakane on the East Rand on Sunday.