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.
The Eastern Cape Tourism Board suffered a R3-million loss when seven of its white rhinoceros at the Tsolwana Game Reserve died recently.
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.
The leadership of the SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) was confident on Thursday that two days of behind-closed-doors discussions in East London this week would help to refocus the embattled organisation.
Following Friday’s announcement that South African Bali blast victims Craig Harty and Godfrey Fitz were officially presumed dead, no further details could be released on the status of South Africans who remained on the island.
The Gauteng health department is urging parents in local communities to get youths at initiation schools in the rugged hills around Heidelberg to come home.
Some of the children who were thought to have died of hunger recently in the Eastern Cape had in fact died of HIV/Aids, the provincial department of social development said on Thursday.
Three political parties on Monday called on the Justice Department to release the details of the 33 prisoners who were granted a presidential pardon over the weekend.
The killing of policemen has sharply declined in the first five months of this year compared to the same period last year, police said on Wednesday.
Retired military generals and top ANC figures recently reached agreement on a form of extended amnesty.
President Thabo Mbeki says that the 33 people he pardoned for crimes including murder and robbery were jailed because of their involvement in the South African freedom struggle.
Drama in the trial of three men accused of murdering East London businessman Martin Whitaker continued in the East London Regional Court on Friday when the State withdrew armed robbery and murder charges against the last man still facing the charges.
THERE was nothing unique or strange about the release of 28 men from Eastern Cape prisons after a pardon was granted by President Thabo Mbeki, the Justice Department said on Monday.
President Thabo Mbeki has met vice-chancellors of the historically disadvantaged universities and technikons, as part of government’s ongoing consultations with those affected by the planned restructuring.
One of the political prisoners who was granted a controversial special presidential pardon in May has appeared in court on murder and armed robbery charges.
Reports of widespread damage amounting to millions of rands have been received from parts of the Eastern Cape due to a gale-force wind blowing in the region on Tuesday.
Political control changed hands in 21 municipalities in four provinces following a 15-day floor-crossing window period for local councillors — 13 of them in the Western Cape, it emerged on Friday.
It would be easy to dismiss the late John Berry’s cinematic adaptation of Athol Fugard’s play <b>Boesman and Lena</b>; those American accents and their perfect white teeth; the fact that Danny Glover in no way resembles anything approaching a San-Bushman or a "Hotnot"; the geographical problem of talking Eastern Cape when we’re clearly in the Western Cape; but that would be missing quite a few points.