The Cape Town Regional Court jailed a pensioner for three years on Tuesday after he lied under oath while testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
A document in which Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel allegedly asks a Swiss trustee of Jurgen Harksen’s affairs for money emerged at the Desai Commission on Wednesday.
The class action lawsuit against various banks and corporations that ”profiteered” from apartheid will start in New York on August 9, said the leader of the legal team leader, US attorney Ed Fagan.
The Cape High Court on Friday reserved judgement in German fugitive Jurgen Harksen’s appeal against extradition to Germany, where he is wanted on embezzlement charges.
Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel has been questioned by the investigative unit, the Scorpions, his representative Kylie Hatton confirmed on Tuesday.
All John Kilgore’s good behaviour since his Symbionese
Liberation Army (SLA) days could not absolve him of his debt to society, a son of SLA victim Myrna Opsahl said on Thursday.
The Western Cape government is to spend a total of R142-million — of its total cost of R582-million — on the new foreshore convention centre being built in the Mother City, according to Finance MEC Ebrahim Rasool.
MPs and activists opposed to abortion on Tuesday complained that two-day public hearings in Parliament on the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOP Act) was biased and excluded those who did not agree with it.
The ruling African National Congress had not ruled out alternatives to the current electoral system, provided these did not undermine the core values of fairness, inclusivity and simplicity.
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) may embark on a campaign of civil disobedience to push the government into a commitment to antiretroviral treatment programmes, the TAC said on Wednesday.
The Cape Town Regional Court on Tuesday dismissed an application for the release from custody of German fugitive Jurgen Harksen.
Compensating apartheid victims was the government’s problem — not that of the Truth of Reconciliation Commission (TRC), former TRC chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Friday.
Police are investigating a bizarre case of indecent assault after a man looking for a job was abducted, beaten up and forced to ejaculate at a house in Kraaifontein, Cape Town.
Democratic Alliance MPL Helen Zille will take the place of DA deputy leader Hennie Bester as the party’s leader in the Western Cape legislature.
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has played down the row over the United States’ delay in issuing a visa to mining boss Tokyo Sexwale.
Political parties represented on Parliament’s ethics committee were on Monday asked to oppose African National Congress (ANC) MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s legal action against Parliament.
The African National Congress in the Western Cape has accused the Democratic Alliance of hypocrisy and failing a moral test.
There was a danger that quality could be sacrificed at the altar of speed and quantity as South Africa tried to speed up its land restitution process, National Land Commissioner Dr Wallace Mgoqi said on Wednesday.
The common origin of all humanity argued against all systems and practices that discriminate against any human being, said President Thabo Mbeki.
Court papers will be served on two top New National Party officials in Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon’s defamation lawsuit against them, Leon’s office confirmed.
The Cape High Court on Monday was told of an early morning telephone call by Marike de Klerk’s alleged killer to his security control room to inform his employers he was going to a doctor.
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.
Twelve Greenpeace activists, six of whom scaled the pumphouse at the Koeberg nuclear power station on August 24 and unfurled a banner saying ”Nukes out of Africa,” were sentenced on Monday to a fine of R4 000 for breaching security.
Media and technology company iTouch has begun disciplinary action against two Cape Town employees who were reportedly running a pornographic website off its system.
Court papers have been served on Parliament by African National Congress (ANC) MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, her lawyer said on Friday. This follows an announcement last week that she would seek redress in the Cape High Court after the National Assembly found her guilty of violating Parliament’s Code of Conduct.
A Cape Town Regional Court magistrate was seriously wounded when several shots were fired at him as he was about to get into his car at his home in Brandwag near Kuils River on Friday.