An inquest docket was opened on Friday into the death on Wednesday night of a Nigerian national under arrest for cocaine possession, police said.
Police in Thohoyandou in Limpopo arrested a 38-year-old man in connection with the rape of a 98-year-old woman on Sunday.
Backpackers hostels, restaurants, caravan parks and a host of other tourism-related businesses in South Africa will soon be rated in terms of a star grading scheme similar to that used by hotels, the Tourism Grading Council of SA said on Monday.
Three quarters of South African long-haul truck drivers who participated in a recent survey reported feeling sleepy while driving, because of long working hours, and too little poor quality sleep between trips.
Two South African media representatives were detained and interrogated over the weekend by Kenyan police looking for suspects after the hotel blast near Mombasa and the firing of missiles at an Israeli passenger plane last week
The South African Communist Party (SACP) said on Monday that accusations of ”ultra-leftism” would merely divert the attention of the tripartite alliance away from urgent problems such as poverty, unemployment and HIV/Aids.
South Africa’s largest gold miner, AngloGold, began distributing anti-Aids drugs on Thursday to its HIV-positive staff, who make up about a quarter of its regional workforce.
President Thabo Mbeki on Friday chided African National Congress public representatives who ”meet their constituencies only during election time or when forced do so”.
A 5-month-old baby is in a critical condition in hospital after being raped in Hillbrow on Saturday night while she was left unattended in her parents’ flat, Johannesburg police reported.
Helen Suzman is widely regarded as an unsentimental liberal — one who has always spoken the truth to those in power in South Africa.