A private school in Randburg, Gauteng, on Monday strongly condemned the government’s recent published draft policy banning random drug testing and searches at schools.
A provincial police task team in Gauteng has been appointed to investigate a series of computer thefts from business premises.
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.
South Africa has been rocked by another bomb explosion, this time at a police station in the Western Cape. An explosive device went off on Saturday night at the Bishop Lavis police station, shattering its front doors and windows.
Contrary to popular belief, South Africans were satisfied with the level of service they received from local banks.
Germiston man in his late 20s was arrested on Thursday night for making false claims of having planted a bomb in a pub, and saying he was responsible for one of the Soweto bomb blasts in the
early hours of Wednesday morning.
President Thabo Mbeki had promised traditional leaders their powers would not be reduced, but the Communal Land Rights Bill did exactly that, says Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa chairman Patekile Holomisa.
While criticism against the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) mounted, the Gauteng Department of Education declared its intention to apply for a court interdict against the student organisation.
The SAS Drakensberg would leave for the island of St Helena on Sunday to take part in the island’s 500th anniversary celebrations.
National Land Committee (NLC) official Ann Eveleth was released on Thursday after a ruling by the Pretoria High Court.
A programme to provide a basic amount of free water to every household in South Africa has now reached an estimated 27-million people.
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Pro-Palestinian activists seem to have hijacked the civil society march on the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
The Gautrain, linking Johannesburg, Pretoria and Johannesburg International Airport, would have limited impact on the environment, it was announced on Monday.
The state would not allow anybody to impose minority views through extra-legal and unconstitutional means, including some traditional leaders who were threatening bloodshed because they were opposed to a controversial new land right bill, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
South Africa’s population rose by an average of
657 532 annually between 1996 and 2002, bringing the total figure from 42-million in 1996 to 46-million in 2002.
The Gauteng health department is already providing anti-Aids drugs to HIV-positive pregnant women in 90% of the province’s state hospitals.
Eight people have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and murder of an Alexandra school pupil, Johannesburg police said this week.
Further arrests in connection with the recent series of bomb blasts in Gauteng were imminent on Wednesday, National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi said.
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A groundbreaking gathering of world leaders — described by one as a dialogue of the deaf — culminated on Wednesday in the adoption of an ambitious plan to salvage the planet and its people.
Supposedly ”laid back” Capetonians appear to be leading the way in fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits while working at the same time.
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.
Two men appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of defrauding the Road Accident Fund.
Hundreds of soccer fans flocked to the Johannesburg International Airport on Friday morning to welcome Bafana Bafana home.
Johannesburg police arrested two Cameroonian men on Tuesday in connection with a series of thefts and robberies of computers and other electronic equipment in the Gauteng area.
About 75% of children younger than 17 lived below the poverty line of R400 per month in 1999, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa said on Tuesday.
As police were rounding up suspected right-wing troublemakers in a countrywide swoop on Friday, a body purportedly representing such extremists threatened more violent attacks.
A high-level investigation has been launched into misconduct by police officials at the Ivory Park police station near Midrand.
South Africans consumed up to 80% of the world’s Mandrax and accounted for the second largest quantity of cannabis seized anywhere in the world after Mexico, reveals a United Nations report.
A man in his late 20s who claimed to have planted bombs in Soweto told Germiston pub attendants that he bombed the area for the ”flag and the country”.
The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) accused the government on Monday of ”wilfully misunderstanding” its position on privatisation.
Police believed they had destroyed whatever infrastructure the right-wing Boeremag organisation had, government representative Joel Netshitenzhe said on Thursday.