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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/ 14 November 2001
Despite media stirring, this year’s awards at Sun City ran without fault or controversy, writes Matthew Krouse.
The South African Screenwriters’ Association is struggling to recruit black film-makers, reports Johnny Masilela.