Smaller parties lost their members to the bigger ones and 16 of a total of 555 municipal councillors who crossed the floor over the past two weeks had tried to switch political parties more than once, says the Independent Electoral Commission.
Free State ANC leaders met a group of Afrikaner community leaders on Thursday in what has been likened to the watershed Dakar talks in 1987 during the apartheid era.
The Johannesburg CBD has begun feeling the effects of the municipal workers’ strike, with most of the city’s busiest streets covered in a sea of rubbish on Wednesday morning.
Agri Free State farmers established their own special task force at a meeting this week to patrol the border between South Africa and Lesotho.
A sun-dappled morning breaks over Braam Pretorius street, a picture of leafy serenity, and the white-only staff of Radio Pretoria turn on the microphones for another day of vocal resistance to the new South Africa.
Percy Yutar, most prominent in the public eye during the early 1960s as a State prosecutor in the now-famous Rivonia Treason Trial, has died aged 90 in Johannesburg.
Three members of a Springfontein family were in custody on Thursday night after a woman allegedly stabbed a visiting cousin to death following an argument apparently fuelled by alcohol, police said.
An awaiting trial prisoner, who escaped with four others from a Free State prison, allegedly shot dead an accomplice and wounded another as police closed in on the group in Kroonstad on Thursday.
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.
Bloemfontein’s Grootvlei Prison head Tatolo Setlai, who allowed inmates to make a video of alleged warder corruption, has laid a complaint against his employers following his ”temporary transfer”.
A prominent Free State farmer has accused President Thabo Mbeki and the government of failing to protect his substantial business interests and those of other South Africans in Zimbabwe.
Over the last 10 days around 1 000 people, aged between three weeks and 95 years, have climbed — or been carried up — mountains across South Africa as part of a countrywide celebration of the International Year of the Mountain.
THE Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) and its alliance partners announced that unemployment remained the most difficult challenge for government, as more workers lost their jobs and more people faced poverty.
Until his involvement in a cricket match-fixing scandal two years ago, Wessel Johannes ”Hansie” Cronje, who died in a plane crash near George on Saturday morning, was one of South Africa’s most popular sporting personalities.
A senior inspector for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was attacked by two lion breeders at a controversial predator auction in Hoopstad in the Free State on Friday.
The SA National Defence Force is planning to conduct a major exercise in the Free State and Northern Cape in September.
A unique fossil of an ancient Karoo crocodile was lost to science after the vehicle in which it was being transported, was stolen in Bloemfontein.
The SA Municipal Workers’ nation-wide strike got into full swing on Tuesday despite threats of disciplinary action by some municipalities in the Free State, Samwu claimed.
Two more men were arrested on Wednesday in connection with an alleged plot to overthrow the government, police reported. Detective services representative Phuti Setati said thus far 17 people had been arrested in connection with the coup plot by white extremists.
The search for the remains of up to five people who drowned after their vehicle was swept away by heavy flood waters near Amatikulu, was continuing, the KwaZulu-Natal road traffic inspectorate said on Sunday.
The African National Congress and the New National Party announced moves to cement their co-operation pact on Saturday in apparent anticipation of them jointly taking control of a number of municipal councils.