The Scorpions arrested two men, one a police inspector, in connection with Road Accident Fund (RAF) fraud on Wednesday.
Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa and the provincial executive council on Wednesday expressed outrage at the explosions which rocked Soweto overnight killing a woman.
The Johannesburg Hospital is conducting an audit of all operations performed by Dr Wynne Lieberthal at its children’s spinal unit, to determine any potential negligence.
A young attorney was arrested in Alberton on Thursday morning for her alleged involvement in fraudulent claims totalling R2-million from the Road Accident Fund (RAF).
Two lawyers and five others were arrested in Gauteng on Tuesday for allegedly running an investment scam that promised ”the black empowerment opportunity of a lifetime.”
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.
Police have arrested five of the six men wanted in connection with October’s Soweto and Bronkhorstpruit bombings and unearthed explosives ”clearly designed to kill”, a statement said on Wednesday.
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has played down the row over the United States’ delay in issuing a visa to mining boss Tokyo Sexwale.
The PAC wanted Africa’s youth to be assisted with ”genuine liberation”, PAC deputy leader Motsoko Pheko said in Gauteng on Sunday.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
A programme to provide a basic amount of free water to every household in South Africa has now reached an estimated 27-million people.
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.
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 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.