The marathon trial of suspended police director Andre Lincoln (41) on theft and fraud charges allegedly involving R300 000, is drawing to a close.
Cape Town’s first city-wide, uniform rate for residents and businesses alike is to be an effective 1c in the rand.
THE level of crime in South Africa was gradually dropping, thanks to the sterling work of the police and the co-operation of the public, newly-appointed Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula told reporters on Tuesday.
President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday South Africa would continue to privatise state-owned corporations despite opposition from the country’s major trade union federation.
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 Democratic Alliance has challenged the New National Party and the African National Congress, as well as senior party leaders, to open their respective and joint party books to a forensic audit.
A police disciplinary hearing on Tuesday recommended that the commander of the Cape Peninsula dog unit be fired over an alleged racist slur.
The Cape High Court has rejected a bid by alleged fraudster Jurgen Harksen to stay out of jail, ruling that German had never been under formal witness protection as he claimed.
Federal prosecutors in the United States were drafting a request to have one of the FBI’s most wanted criminals, a 27-year fugitive accused of a 1975 bank robbery and murder, extradited from South
Africa.
Diamond mining giant De Beers has hit back in its battle with Survival International, warning the organisation of ”serious consequences” should they continue to defame the company.
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.
Top South African ministers will meet diversified miner Anglo American and diamond arm De Beers on Wednesday to discuss plans to give black business a bigger role in mining
The head of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) in the Eastern Cape has been suspended following allegations that he solicited money from Cape-based mafioso Vito Palazzolo.
A school to train spies and intelligence agents may soon be established in South Africa, once the Intelligence Services Bill, tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, becomes law.
Lawyers for thousands of South Africans suffering from asbestos-related diseases are to return to the English High Court on Tuesday in a renewed bid for compensation.
The human race has run up a massive overdraft in its use of natural resources, according to a report released by the World Wildlife Fund.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon came out fighting hours after his party had lost control of Cape Town, and dared the New National Party and the African National Congress to call an election in the Mother City.
The National Treasury moved on Wednesday to bring more clarity to the myriad of South African tax laws, with the tabling in Parliament’s finance committee of almost 200 pages of amendments.
Former Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu will meet his ex-commissioners on Thursday to see whether an amicable solution can be found to the threatened court action by the Inkatha Freedom Party.
The Medicines Control Council was clearly losing its independence and was not acting on the basis of ensuring access to safe and effective Aids medicines, the Treatment Action Campaign said on Sunday.
A programme to provide a basic amount of free water to every household in South Africa has now reached an estimated 27-million people.
Auditors uncovered a string of financial irregularities in the Western Cape provincial administration, including the purchase of a Watchdog, a device used to monitor conversations and detect electronic bugging.
A SUPPORTER of the anti-crime vigilante organisation People Against Gangsterism and Drugs, who killed a four-year-old girl in a driveby shooting aimed at her father, was on Thursday effectively jailed for 25 years.
Prison gangs are using HIV infection by rape as punishment in a grim ritual known as ”slow puncture”, the Jali Commission heard on Wednesday.
The justice department is still considering Dr Allan Boesak’s application for a presidential pardon as the former anti-apartheid cleric moves towards a return to politics.
A police captain has revealed that he found two men with electronic equipment in the office of Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel late one night last year.
An independent audit commissioned by the Democratic Alliance (DA) has been unable to establish the source of an anonymous donation of 99 000 Deutschemarks to the party in the Western Cape, while the source of three amounts in the DA’s national accounts is also unclear.
After 65 years in the precincts of Parliament the British High Commission is considering giving up its prime location and relocating to another building in the city,
The South African treasury will be guided in the liberalisation of remaining exchange controls by the final report of the Myburgh Commission on the decline of the rand, a senior official said on Monday.
South Africa’s universities may soon find themselves under pressure to turn over all the cultural artefacts and ”collected national heritage” in their possession, including examples of San and African rock art.
Parliament wants to install a special system to monitor MPs attendance, at a cost of R3,5-million to the taxpayer.
President Thabo Mbeki and former president FW de Klerk met in what were described as constructive ”nation-building” talks at a game lodge near Pretoria at the weekend.