Allowing KwaZulu-Natal legislature members who defected to the African National Congress from other political parties to temporarily retain their seats would undermine the constitution, the Constitutional Court heard.
The Jolly Rubino, the burning ship stuck on a sandbank off the ecologically sensitive St Lucia wetland and estuary in KwaZulu-Natal, is showing signs off breaking up, a KZN Wildlife official said.
At least 48 people have died in a fresh outbreak of cholera that has infected about 3 000 people in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province.
A 31-year-old man was arrested in Tsakane near Boksburg on Monday for allegedly selling his 18-day-old baby.
Iraq is expected to respond within the next few days to the UN Security Council resolution requiring it to disarm or face serious consequences, the official Iraqi News Agency said on Saturday.
A stack of cash in a Cape Town man’s breast pocket saved his life when robbers shot at him in Phillippi-East near Nyanga.
The Democratic Alliance believes it is the victim of a major dirty tricks campaign and wants to meet Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu after a series of break-ins and theft of computers with confidential party information.
Battered by claims that it received funds from alleged German fraudster Jurgen Harksen, the Democratic Alliance (DA) on Thursday appointed independent auditors Ernst and Young to conduct a forensic audit of donations to the party.
South Africa has been rocked by another bomb explosion, this time at a police station in the Western Cape. An explosive device went off on Saturday night at the Bishop Lavis police station, shattering its front doors and windows.
The country’s fiercest political rivals and one time allies, the Democratic Alliance and the New National Party on Friday used poll results to claim superiority over each other in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.