South Africans had high hopes when Riah Phiyega stepped into office as national police commissioner last year. Those hopes, it seems, were misplaced.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has announced sweeping cuts to the pricey perks enjoyed by civil servants.
President Jacob Zuma held up Mexico as an example of the reporting South African news organisations should strive for. But what does that mean?
Despite his flagging influence, Tony Yengeni remains a public persona that people love to hate.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe once called Cyril Ramaphosa ‘a white man in a black man’s skin’
The M&G caught up with Melinda Gates while she visited Lilongwe, Malawi to see how a family planning campaign in the country was going.
The country is focusing on giving women access to family planning services. Faranaaz Parker reports.
Politics is so riddled with patronage that the latest revelations about payments made to President Jacob Zuma have been dismissed, say analysts.
The DA has called on President Jacob Zuma to "do the honourable thing" and take leave from his office until all allegations have been dealt with.
The SABC says its decision to prevent journalists from participating in a debate on Metro FM was made in the interest of the public.
Media experts say the latest "banning" incident at the SABC has made a mockery of freedom of expression, and the public broadcaster must explain.
Experts agree that if the secrecy Bill is enacted into law, either opposition parties or the public will contest the law at the Constitutional Court.
If expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema is anything to go by, moderate is the new radical.
A new report from financial services group Nomura says Jacob Zuma is in no danger of being unseated by the ANC, despite his growing unpopularity.
The ANC will ask that the motion of no confidence against Jacob Zuma, requested by a coalition of opposition parties, be scheduled for next year.
A new report on the global Aids epidemic shows a more than 50% drop in new HIV infections across 25 countries over the last 10 years.
A man has been killed during farm workers protests outside Wolsely in the Western Cape.
The decision by opposition parties to band together in a vote of no confidence against Jacob Zuma highlights a growing frustration with Parliament.
The Hawks on Sunday shot dead an alleged rhino poacher and injured another during a shootout in the Kruger National Park.
Law enforcement agencies have dealt a blow to a global smuggling ring, when a Thai national was sentenced to 40 years for smuggling rhino horn.
The ANC has dismissed the vote of no confidence tabled against Jacob Zuma by a coalition of opposition parties in Parliament as a waste of time.
Opposition parties will present a unified front in Parliament on Thursday afternoon and file a motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma.
There has been mixed reaction to the SABC’s directive to journalists not to use the words "compound" and "homestead" to refer to Zuma’s Nkandla home.
Comair has asked staff of rival 1Time, who lost their jobs when it went into liquidation last week, to forward their CVs to its recruitment officers.
Government’s disregard for court orders shows there’s little chance of civil society holding anyone accountable for the expenditure on Nkandla.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille has defended the party’s decision to visit President Jacob Zuma’s homestead in Nkandla.
A number of students at UJ face disciplinary action after staff discovered they had submitted fake sick notes to avoid writing their exams on time.
ANC heavyweight and businessman Cyril Ramaphosa has offered to testify at the Marikana commission of inquiry.
Analysts say lambasting Cyril Ramaphosa over his emails to Lonmin management may just be a way to smooth Julius Malema’s return to the ANC.
Hundreds of questions asked of ministers in Parliament went unanswered last year but all their seniors can do is nag them to respond.
The ANCYL and Malema’s ‘economic freedom fighters’ have called for Cyril Ramaphosa to be arrested over his alleged part in the Marikana shooting.
A five-year study of HIV infected people is pointing the way for further work towards a vaccine.