Cape Town’s scenic Chapman’s Peak Drive will become a toll road from September 30 this year.
A reporter from a private radio station was arrested this week in connection with a mutiny that broke out in the southeastern region of the impoverished country at the beginning of the month.
Prisoners at the Grootvlei prison in Bloemfontein were allegedly encouraged by a warder to lie to the Jali Commission in order to discredit a video tape exposing prison corruption.
A jubilant New National Party on Tuesday morning produced the defectors it needs to wrest control of the City of Cape Town from the Democratic Alliance.
Afrikaans musician Johannes Kerkorrel, who died on Tuesday, would be remembered for his stance against apartheid, Deputy Minister for Arts, Culture, Science and Technology Bridgitte Mabandla said on Wednesday.
A strong rand and weak overseas markets hammered South African shares on Wednesday despite hefty advances by gold shares on the back of a firm bullion price.
Oil companies can wrest the initiative from the green lobby by making the clean fuels of the future from their own refineries.
Flooding and mudslides caused by torrential rains have killed at least 178 people in western China and wrecked bridges and power stations, officials said Wednesday.
Children as young as 11 are being forcibly recruited into the Myanmar army, where they are coerced into human rights abuses including mass executions, an in-depth report showed on Tuesday.
US forces have captured a man who is believed to be a top financier for Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network or the Taliban during an operation in southeastern Afghanistan, the military said.