Police are investigating claims that a 13-year-old Bethlehem boy impregnated his 11-year-old sister, after the girl gave birth to a two-month premature child, police said on Friday.
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has ruled out compensating medical students for a proposed additional year of community service by sponsoring one year of their study debt.
When a neurosurgery student was shot in the back in an attempted hijacking last year, it was not apparent that his being rendered paraplegic would benefit others.
The anti-Aids drug nevirapine is now available at all public hospitals in Gauteng, provincial premier Mbhazima Shilowa said on Tuesday.
Limpopo was the province with the highest economic growth rate last year. It also has the highest economic growth rate on average over the past six years, Statistics SA said on Thursday.
A WHEELCHAIR-bound man, believed to be the kingpin of a cellphone theft syndicate, was arrested during a crime blitz in Hillbrow on Saturday night.
Police investigating right-wing activities in the country on Saturday refused to disclose further information on the second phase of Operation Hopper — aimed at enforcing the Arms and Ammunitions Act.
With the spotlight on South Africa’s security agencies’ ability to prevent terrorism following Wednesday’s bomb blasts near Johannesburg, the National Assembly on Thursday approved four bills to enhance the effectiveness of the intelligence services.
The government had reversed its ban on a Social Movements Indaba march from Alexandra township to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Sandton on Saturday, the SMI said in a statement on Wednesday.
The recent rash of bombings in Gauteng reflected rising discontent among Afrikaners, the Afrikaner Group of 63 said on Thursday.
Since 1994, the Gauteng government has spent about R5-billion to provide housing for more than 2,5-million people in the province.
The Gauteng social services department has blamed the boat company at Zoo Lake for the drowning of two children at a Children’s Day festival last year, but the compnay says the department is just looking for a scapegoat.
The founder of the well-known youth care organisation, Boys Town, has died.
A senior member of the right-wing group, the Boeremag, will appear on Tuesday in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court to face charges of terrorism, high treason and sabotage
Cabinet has decided to reduce the number of higher education institutions from 36 to 21, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Thursday.
MPs and activists opposed to abortion on Tuesday complained that two-day public hearings in Parliament on the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOP Act) was biased and excluded those who did not agree with it.
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.
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.
The Limpopo provincial government had by Friday closed down a total of eight illegal initiation schools after a boy from the Mokgolobotho village initiation school died last weekend.
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.
South African retail group Edcon said on Monday it would acquire Elixir Marketing for an undisclosed amount, boosting its plans to dominate in discount and enhance its exposure to over 20-million consumers.
A bomb exploded at the Umtamvuna bridge near the Wild Coast Sun casino and hotel complex on the border between the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday
The Sunday Times has published pictures of six men wanted in connection with a series of bombs in Gauteng and Mpumalanga last week.
Seven Congress of South African Students (Cosas) leaders have been barred from entering any public school in Gauteng but those still learning will be allowed to continue with their studies.
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration said on Friday it would soon set up a meeting between striking municipal workers and their employer.
President Thabo Mbeki made a strong call on Friday night for all South Africans to embrace transformation.
A bomb blast damaged the offices of the police’s serious and violent crimes unit in Cape Town on Saturday night, but no deaths or injuries were caused.
The largest ever United Nations gathering takes place in South Africa just days before the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
The African National Congress in Gauteng on Sunday voiced its support for Education MEC Ignatius Jacobs’ decision to overturn the expulsion of Deputy Mineral and Energy Minister Susan Shabangu’s son from Sunward Park High School.
Nelson Mandela has condemned ”in the strongest terms” the behaviour of Cosas during a protest march in Johannesburg last Friday.
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.
The Scorpions arrested two men, one a police inspector, in connection with Road Accident Fund (RAF) fraud on Wednesday.