A bid by the African National Congress (ANC) to secure continued protection for five provincial-level defectors who jumped the gun has been rejected by the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
A leading South African drug expert has called for the partial decriminalisation of dagga, and further debate on the way forward.
British police have arrested a woman in connection with the murder of a boy whose mutilated torso was found in a river, a case which has prompted an extended probe into a suspected ritual killing.
South African prisoners will no longer be allowed to carry cash with them inside prisons from next year, the Department of Correctional Services said on Tuesday.
Concern over their daughter’s safety, following the recent murder of two 10-year-olds, have led her parents to allow a controversial British cybernetics expert to implant a tracking device in her.
A confession made by Marike de Klerk’s alleged killer Luyanda Mboniswa accused the former first lady’s dance teacher John Thebus of her murder, the Cape High Court heard on Monday.
In a blow to Aborigines, Australia’s highest court has ruled that they do not have rights to oil or minerals found under tribal land now being used by mining companies.
The Zimbabwe government has begun evicting thousands of families who have occupied mainly white-owned farms that were not earmarked for acquisition under the country’s land reform programme.
The body of the 77-year-old initiation candidate from the North West who died over the weekend has been exhumed, police said on Tuesday.
Pietermaritzburg is set to be the sole seat of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, despite opposition from the Inkatha Freedom.