South Africa said on Tuesday it was relaxing its 2004 inflation target because of higher prices linked to the rand’s slide in 2001, which have prompted the central bank to raise interest four times this year.
Twenty Aids-orphaned Orange Farm children will get a second chance at a normal life, thanks to a R1,5-million donation and the efforts of a group of dynamic women.
A BBC documentary on child rape in South Africa has been given the thumbs up by once sceptical MPs, who now favour its broadcast and appear satisfied it is not a ”seriously skewed” picture of sexual abuse in the country.
Criminals in South Africa will be dealt a further blow in the near future with the introduction of an unmanned aerial surveillance drone by the South African Police Service.
Three Stellenbosch University researchers leave for New Zealand next month en route to Antarctica as part of a joint South African-New Zealand project to study insects.
Former first lady Marike de Klerk’s dance instructor John Thebus on Wednesday denied claims that he stabbed and strangled her in her beachfront apartment.
Former president Nelson Mandela is to take up the Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) call for antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs for people with HIV directly with President Thabo Mbeki.
Beleaguered Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel was on hugging terms with alleged Mafia kingpin Vito Palazzolo, the Desai Commission heard on Monday.
Thabo Mbeki says new US farm subsidies, which have been condemned by Europe and most of the Third World, contradicted their proclaimed support for developing economies.
Thousands of people were left homeless when 600 shacks were destroyed by fire at the Grabouw informal settlement in the Boland on Sunday.
South Africa has made a strong call to other African countries to support a bid by itself and four of its neighbours to be allowed to legally sell elephant ivory.
War, fire, logging and agriculture are taking a heavy toll on Africa’s mountain regions, says the Nairobi-based United Nations Environment Programme.
Two men have been arrested and a third is under police guard in hospital after three schoolboys, in their late teens, were shot and stabbed to death in Khayelitsha.
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.
South Africa called on the Israeli government on Monday to cease attacking and using excessive military force against Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his compound in the West Bank town of
Ramallah.
Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel has denied Jurgen Harksen’s claim that he had dealings with alleged Mafia kingpin Vito Palazzolo.
The Desai Commission wound up its public hearings on Friday with testimony from a wealthy German businessman on how he bankrolled Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel.
President Thabo Mbeki has reaffirmed South Africa’s policy of constructive engagement towards Zimbabwe and again rejected calls to punish President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu-PF party.
MPs on Wednesday finally approved the contentious Immigration Bill which has been more than four years in the making.
Western Cape premier and New National Party (NNP) provincial leader Peter Marais has resigned following new claims of sexual misconduct that may lead to criminal prosecution.
South Africa’s National Treasury has given the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo a bridging loan to the equivalent of R760-million to help them country clear its International Monetary Fund (IMF)liabilities.
Contrary to popular belief, South Africans were satisfied with the level of service they received from local banks.
The Desai commission’s report, which finds the Democratic Alliance (DA) did accept tainted money, is to be referred to the Scorpions for further investigation.
The DA donor that didn’t exist
Africa was a priority for the US Trade and Development Agency and an office would be opened in Johannesburg in July.
Security guard Mkululi Ntshuba told the Cape High Court on Tuesday of his concern when he encountered his colleague Luyanda Mboniswa at the Dolphin Beach apartment complex on the night former first lady was killed.
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.
THE New National Party (NNP) on Saturday formally accepted more than 150 former Democratic Alliance (DA) members who had defected to the NNP over the past few months.
The suspension of the defection window period pending a High Court judgement caused havoc for politicians and the media on Friday who had braced themselves for an early start to MPs, MPLs and local councillors switching party loyalty.
Deputy Minister Aziz Pahad on Thursday stopped short of calling for sanctions against Israel, but said the United Nations should look at ways to intervene more decisively in the Middle East crisis.
Black economic empowerment company Kulani Africa Gas will open the first in a network of natural gas filling stations across South Africa on Sunday.
A member of the European Parliament on Thursday warned there was a direct link between the availability of development aid to African countries and a commitment towards democracy and human rights on the continent.