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.
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.
The number of people arrested in connection with diamond dealing in the Northern and Western Cape during the final phase of Operation Solitaire on Wednesday has reached 33.
Sixty government and wine industry delegates from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa and the US attended the World Wine Trade Group (WWTG) meeting in Cape Town.
A boy’s innocent comment to his mother about sucking cheese off their boarder’s penis led to the boarder’s conviction on Thursday on two counts of indecent assault involving children
The Democratic Alliance on Monday called on the government to answer allegations made last week that South Africa was selling equipment used to develop nuclear weapons to Iraq.
Luyanda Mboniswa, the security guard accused of killing first lady Marike de Klerk, confessed his role in the murder to the investigating officer, the Cape High Court heard on Friday.
German fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen on Thursday recanted on earlier testimony to the Desai Commission, saying he had been mistaken about his reasons for cancelling a cheque for the Democratic Alliance.
”Teddy Bear” rapist Malcolm Egglestone who raped a teenage girl and kidnapped and indecently assaulted others should be jailed for a long time, the Cape Town Regional Court heard on Tuesdsay.
The stranding of the Jolly Rubino off the St Lucia estuary had led to claims totalling almost R15-million for one of Santam’s underwriting agencies, Associated Marine Underwriting Agency (Amua).
The office of Western Cape premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk has confirmed that a written threat against him by right-wing militants has been referred to the police.
A leading South African drug expert has called for the partial decriminalisation of dagga, and further debate on the way forward.
Four people including two children were shot and wounded by two gunmen in Lenton Road, Bishop Lavis in Cape Town on Wednesday, Western Cape police said
WESTERN CAPE MEC for local government Willem Doman on Sunday said the arrears in service payments to municipalities has to be addressed.
The Democratic Alliance in the Cape says it has ”taken a decision” on the findings of a party probe into provincial leader Gerald Morkel’s links with fugitive German businessman Jurgen Harksen.
The case against 12 Greenpeace environmental activists has been postponed until Friday for further investigation.
Nobel laureate and Northern Ireland politician David Trimble drew parallels on Thursday between the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin in the 1930s and Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe.
The difference a ”revitalised” South African Revenue Service (Sars) had made to the country’s economic landscape was remarkable, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday.
Jurgen Harksen promised an associate a contract to work on Cape Town’s convention centre in return for a donation to the Democratic Alliance, the Desai Commission heard on Wednesday.
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.
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.