operation of South Africa’s intelligence services were approved in the National Council of Provinces on Friday, following their earlier passage in the National Assembly.

Five grade three (standard 1) pupils, clutching their mothers’ hands, were marched into the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court dock on Friday where they appeared with a 13-year-old classmate in connection with the rape of an eight-year-old schoolgirl last month.

A group calling themselves the Boer Nation Warriors
(Boerevolk-Krygers) have claimed responsibility for the recent bomb blasts in Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit.

South Africa’s advertising industry will appear before
Parliament’s communications committee on Tuesday to report back on progress made in transforming the industry following last year’s hearings into racism.

An NGO group has filed a lawsuit in New York against 21 multinational corporations, including Shell, Ford and IBM, and leading international banks, including Barclays and Deutsche Bank, for allegedly helping prop up the apartheid state.

Former Judge President John Myburgh would conduct a formal inquiry into the conduct and performance of University of the Witwatersrand Vice-Chancellor Norma Reid Birley, the university’s council said in a statement on Wednesday.

The R188-million by which the World Summit on Sustainable Development overspent its budget was worth it for the goodwill the summit had earned the country, says Environment Affairs Director General Chippy Olver.

Police warned on Thursday that those behind the recent spate of bomb hoaxes across the country face jail terms of up to 15 years if caught and prosecuted.

South Africa’s government must enforce the law prohibiting mercenaries from taking part in foreign military conflicts if it wants to retain its credibility to maintain peace in Africa, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday.