A wad of documents that appear to back at least some of Jurgen Harksen’s claims that he bankrolled the DA and Gerald Morkel were handed to the Desai Commission on Thursday.
REPRESENTATIVES of 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) opposition groupings expressed the hope on Friday evening that all-embracing talks on that country’s future would resume as soon as possible.
The New National Party’s head council in the Western Cape is likely to meet this week to appoint a new premier for the province, following the resignation of Peter Marais on new sex claims.
The long-awaited National Health Bill that spells out the government’s vision of a single national health care system across the three levels of government was approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday.
Heavy snow such as the recent falls in the North-Eastern Cape makes life unpleasant for sheep, but being trapped in the open doesn’t necessarily mean frozen mutton.
Fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen could find himself back behind bars at the weekend when the protective custody ordered by the Desai Commission draws to an end.
The Department of Correctional Services is probing why six successful job applicants all gave the Cape Town residence of an African National Congress MP as their home address.
African National Congress MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela will seek redress in the Cape High Court after the National Assembly found her guilty of violating Parliament’s Code of Conduct, her lawyer said on Friday.
National Assembly Speaker Dr Frene Ginwala is now free to publicly rebuke Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and dock the equivalent of 15 days salary after MPs unanimously adopted a report of Parliament’s ethics committee on Wednesday.
Transport Minister Dullah Omar tested HIV negative when he undertook a public HIV/Aids test at the Cape Town station.
As the last hours of the 15-day floor-crossing period ticked away on Tuesday, the Democratic Alliance was still holding onto power in ten local councils in the Western Cape.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has received a summons calling her to appear before a panel of Parliament’s ethics committee.
A young father who for two months stole household items worth R15 000 from Boardmans to help make ends meet was sentenced to 300 hours’ weekend jail.
A bomb blast damaged the offices of the police’s serious and violent crimes unit in Cape Town on Saturday night, but no deaths or injuries were caused.
James Kilgore, one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, smiled and gave a thumbs-up sign to supporters Monday at a South African court hearing on plans to extradite him to the United States.
A pathologist has told the Cape High Court that no sperm was discovered in forensic tests on the body of murdered former first lady Marike de Klerk.
Police arrested seven men after a traffic officer was shot and wounded following a cash-in-transit heist on the M3 near Ottery in Cape Town on Tuesday.
What formal response, if any, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has made to a letter he received this weekend from President Thabo Mbeki remained unknown late on Sunday.
A South African rescue team bound for the icy Antarctic continent will sail from the Port of Cape Town on Sunday in a bid to save 107 people trapped there aboard an ice-bound ship.
The Desai Commission of Inquiry into former Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel’s links to German fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen has found that Harksen ”or one of his associates” provided money to the Democratic Alliance.
Embattled Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel was grilled to a turn as he struggled to explain to the Desai Commission whether he would have accepted a donation from fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen.
South Africans puffed their way through 25 billion cigarettes last year, according to a ”social report” released by British American Tobacco SA on Wednesday.
No final decision had yet been taken on where to bury the remains of Saartje Bartmann, the Khoi woman exhibited in freak shows in Europe in the early 1800s as the ”Hottentot Venus”.
The Democratic Alliance’s federal council has censured Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel and former Western Cape Finance MEC Leon Markovitz for ”poor judgement” at a Saturday meeting.
President Thabo Mbeki has ordered the special investigating unit, also known as the Scorpions, to probe wide-ranging allegations of corruption and maladministration in five Western Cape councils.
The witness protection programme has ordered that luxury-loving fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen be sent back to jail ”with immediate effect”.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is to launch a national campaign on Sunday calling for all poor South Africans to have access to a basic income grant.
Former Cape Town Mayor Gerald Morkel resigned this afternoon as provincial leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the wake of the Desai Commission of Inquiry into his links with German fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen.
The bail application brought last month by a man alleged to have used a fake bomb to rob a bank, may have to start afresh if not finalised by the end of June.
Parliament’s third bid to find Public Protector Selby Baqwa’s successor hit another snag at the weekend, when advertisements appearing in Sunday newspapers gave the wrong closing date for applications for the independent watchdog post.
The re-arrest of terror suspect James Kilgore was nothing other than an abuse of power by South African officials, a Wynberg magistrate was told on Friday afternoon.
The Cape High Court has ordered the immediate release from prison of three burglars who stole whisky, brandy, soft drinks and sweets worth R800 during a break-in at the Hellenic Sports Club earlier this year.