A Cape Town police officer who confessed to the murder of five petrol attendants has been transferred to a psychiatric hospital
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.
Spoornet’s CEO Zandile Jakavula and the company’s executive manager for asset protection, Chain Vilakazi, have been demoted, following a disciplinary hearing into allegations that the two acted in03 May 2002appropriately.
Pardoned former Apla cadre Dumisani Ncamazana walked from court a free man in East London on Monday after charges of illegal possession of firearms were dropped.
Pressure is mounting on President Thabo Mbeki to explain the criteria he used to pardon 33 prisoners in the Eastern Cape at the weekend.
Limpopo was the province with the highest economic growth rate last year. It also has the highest economic growth rate on average over the past six years, Statistics SA said on Thursday.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela paid an emotional tribute to his friend and fellow anti-apartheid veteran Walter Sisulu, who celebrated his 90th birthday on Saturday, calling him a giant of the liberation struggle.
Umtata came to a standstill on Thursday afternoon when the Zulu royal house motorcade paraded through the streets ahead of a celebrity wedding that will see the royal Zulu and Nelson Mandela’s Thembu houses united.
Convicted murderers and robbers Simnikiwe and Dumisani Ncamazana will spend at least the next 25 years behinds bars after they were given life sentences in the East London High Court on Thursday.
Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine
Fraser-Moleketi has named a team of high ranking civil servants to assist the Eastern Cape government in stamping out corruption.
South Africa has a high demand for pregnancy termination services despite a high awareness of family planning, a research paper indicated on Wednesday.
Two arms caches that may be connected with the alleged rightwing plot to topple the government were discovered on Tuesday and Wednesday, police said.
The 130 people trapped in vehicles by heavy snowfalls in the northern parts of the Eastern Cape province were all rescued on Friday night, a disaster management co-ordinator said.
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has ruled out compensating medical students for a proposed additional year of community service by sponsoring one year of their study debt.
Eastern Cape Premier Makhenkesi Stofile was building an ultra-modern house costing more than R600 000 after having demolished his modest home in his home-town of Alice.
Scores of people protested outside the Peddie Magistrate’s Court in the Eastern Cape on Friday during the appearance of five people charged with the kidnapping and assault of two women academics.
Sheep farmers and jackals have long been enemies, but two Eastern Cape farmers now have jackals to thank for their good fortune.
Two girls aged between four and six were still missing in the Eastern Cape on Sunday night.
The SA Nursing Council has started a two-day hearing into the professional conduct of three Komani Hospital psychiatric nurses, accused of helping male patients to rape female patients aged between 15 and 27 last year
The Eastern Cape government scoffed on Thursday at a report alleging widespread corruption in the province, claiming the findings by Public Service Accountability Monitor were ”malicious and irresponsible”.
The disadvantaged indigenous and rural communities have a duty and responsibility to dismantle or replace the government of the day with a responsive and listening government, the National House of Traditional Leaders said on Sunday.
Eastern Cape Health MEC Bevan Goqwana has pledged to have the parents of boys killed or maimed during circumcisions arrested along with negligent traditional surgeons and nurses.
Former Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) amnesty committee member Ntsikelelo Sandi said South Africans would do well to shy away from the idea of blanket amnesty as it would nullify the TRC’s reason and purpose.
Snow worshippers should refrain from heading outdoors to witness the blanket of snow over northern parts of the Eastern Cape.
Elliot and Cala in the Eastern Cape were still cut off from the national power grid and road contact with the outside world on Sunday afternoon.
Vigilantes convicted for mob killings, and a former Ciskei strongman and a bantustan headman are among the 33 Eastern Cape prisoners pardoned by President Thabo Mbeki.
Six Eastern Cape government officials were arrested in King William’s Town on Wednesday morning in connection with bribery allegations, the Scorpions reported.
Eastern Cape MEC, Enoch Godongwana, was fined R8 000, or 200 days in jail on Tuesday for driving under the influence of alcohol.
MPs have re-opened the process of finding a suitable successor for Public Protector Selby Baqwa, after only seven nominations were received for the key post.
Former North West sports director Thabiso Mokoena was found guilty in the Mafikeng Regional Court on Tuesday on 85 counts of fraud totalling R1,3-million.
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 cleanest town in South Africa as well as the dirtiest town will be announced by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism on Wednesday.