Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) moved to close, once and for all, its chapter on the controversial multibillion-rand arms deal — and to reaffirm its own integrity. It will table a resolution in the National Assembly insisting on Auditor General Shauket Fakie’s integrity — and officially dismissing media reports that the final arms report was edited.
Dr Allan Boesak has questioned Justice Minister Penuell Maduna’s motives for revealing that he has recommended the convicted cleric not receive a presidential pardon.
There are 50 tons of uranium ore concentrate on board the grounded Sealand Express in Table Bay, the Nuclear Fuels Corporation of South Africa confirmed on Thursday.
The Democratic Alliance has renewed its call for bold leadership from the South African government in helping to resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe.
The credibility of the report on farm attacks has been questioned after Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula sent the document back to the committee that compiled it.
The stranded container ship Sealand Express stubbornly resisted another attempt to shift her on Wednesday night.
Two American fugitives, on the FBI’s most wanted list for a spate of bank robberies across the American West in the Nineties, were arrested in Cape Town on Tuesday after years on the run. They had been living and working in the Mother City for at least two years.
Dr Allan Boesak says there is ”no way” he can accept an award from the African National Congress for his role in the forming of the United Democratic Front.
The South African polar vessel SA Agulhas was on Wednesday steaming south at full speed from Marion Island to intercept the fleeing Uruguayan trawler Viarsa 1.
So long and thanks for the fish
The SA Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) now has a preliminary report on a startling finding — a mass burial site, believed to date back to the 1700s in a prime Cape Town development area, a University of Cape Town academic said on Tuesday.
Cape Town began mopping up on Tuesday in the wake of a storm that brought snow, gale force winds and driving rain, and sent temperatures plunging.
The major crude oil refiners operating in South Africa expressed serious concern on Monday over new legislation to restructure the industry, arguing it may perpetuate past distortions.
The Directorate of Public Prosecutions has declined to prosecute cigarette manufacturers British American Tobacco (BAT) over its sponsorship of a smoking venue at a African National Congress conference.
The director of a play which aroused the ire of animal lovers when a chicken was slaughtered on stage two weeks ago says he does not regret the killing.
High winds at Marion Island have prevented the South African polar supply vessel SA Agulhas, currently docked there, from joining the chase for the westward fleeing Uruguyan trawler Viarsa 1.
Former President Nelson Mandela’s laywer Ismail Ayob has answered some questions about an alleged art scam — but carefully avoided some key questions about ownership of a company involved.
Two opposition parties on Monday said it would be inappropriate for former constitutional negotiator and now top businessman Cyril Ramaphosa to mediate in the process of any possible plea bargain involving Deputy President Jacob Zuma and others.
South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma says his association with Durban businessman Schabir Shaik "spans more than 20 years" and he trusts the man — who is at the centre of a Scorpions investigation into alleged wrongdoing during the country’s arms deal — "completely".
The Cape Town Regional Court on Friday refused to order the withdrawal of corruption charges against New Labour Party leader Peter Marais and former deputy social development minister David Malatsi.
The British High Commissioner in South Africa Ann Grant officially handed over the keys of the British High Commission building in the parliamentary precinct in Cape Town on Friday morning — and it will now become part of the parliamentary complex.
The central committee of the South African Council of Churches has called on the South African government to be more pro-active in its efforts to facilitate a resolution of Zimbabwe’s crisis.
Disgusted arts lovers stormed out of the Baxter Theatre in Rondebosch after a chicken had its throat cut and was left to bleed to death on stage. The chicken was killed on Saturday, minutes before the end of the closing night of the run of the play iMumbo Jumbo.
Two of South Africa’s largest listed retail groups, Pick ‘n Pay and Shoprite, have announced reductions in the prices they are charging consumers for plastic bags.
Government’s tax amnesty unit will not be able to process all the tax amnesty applications before the end of this year with an anticipated ”flood” of applicants possibly even resulting in an extension to the November deadline.
Nearly 800 000 drivers did not convert to the new credit-card system of driver’s licence, according to South African Transport Minister Dullah Omar. The deadline was the end of April this year.
Suspected Absa hacker Johannes Jacobus Fourie made his third brief appearance in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Monday following his arrest last month after the bank accounts of Absa clients were hacked and more than R500 000 removed.
While US Episcopalians fight back protests over the approval of the church’s first openly gay bishop, the Very Rev. Rowan Smith, the openly gay leader of one of South Africa’s oldest Anglican parishes, happily cut a cake on Sunday as a 150 parishioners sang Happy Birthday to him.
The Cape High Court on Friday ordered the immediate release from prison, on parole, of convicted tax evader Colin Stanfield, who has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and has only six to 12 months to live.
The number of warrants of arrest issued for maintenance defaulters dropped from 61 499 in 2000 for all nine provinces in South Africa to 53 531 in 2001, according to figures released to Parliament by Justice Minister Penuell Maduna.
The University of Cape Town’s health sciences faculty has expressed ”extreme concern” over the threatened partial deregistration of the anti-retroviral nevirapine.
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) wants to have new regulations governing the proposed mandatory national 10-digit dialling system published by December, because of a looming shortage of telephone numbers in the country.
No South Africans were reported killed in the Jakarta, Indonesia, hotel blast as far as could be determined at this stage, says South African Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa.