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/ 10 February 2011
Metrobus drivers in Johannesburg went on strike on Wednesday afternoon in protest against a new shift schedule, the bus company said.
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/ 7 February 2011
Minister Sicelo Shiceka owes Jo’burg municipality almost R35 000, but it is unclear whether his services were cut off, a media report said.
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/ 4 February 2011
The Gauteng highway improvement project will cost motorists 66 cents a kilometre and heavy duty lorries R3,96 a kilometre, Sanral said on Friday.
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/ 4 February 2011
The cost of the Gauteng highway improvement project will have "horrific" implications for motorists, the Automobile Association (AA) said on Friday.
The response of mayors to billing problems and to the floods would influence their nomination as ANC candidates in the upcoming local elections.
The City of Johannesburg on Monday said it had learned "valuable lessons" from the current billing problem, and asked for patience.
Johannesburg’s billing problem, which mayor Amos Masondo recently said was not a sign of a crisis, will be investigated, the government says.
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/ 28 January 2011
Gauteng has denied that hundreds of newly-appointed doctors at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital would not be paid because of a bureaucratic bungle.
The South African Weather Service has predicted more rain for the rest of the week in the northern provinces and central interior of the country.
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/ 18 January 2011
The <em>Mail & Guardian</em> presents its dummies guide to the open-road tolling system explaining what you can expect.
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/ 13 January 2011
The state has asked for the conviction of a father on a charge of murdering his two-year-old son after the child died of a severe head injury in 2008.
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/ 13 January 2011
An application to stop estate agent Wendy Machanik Properties from operating was postponed in the High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday.
The senior state prosecutor will decide how to proceed on the alleged fracas between two policemen and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s bodyguards.
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/ 13 January 2011
Eight unlicensed firearms were found in a home in Boksburg North, Johannesburg on Thursday, Gauteng police said.
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/ 13 January 2011
While education authorities claiming the first day of the 2011 school year "proceeded well", news reports on Thursday reveal a very different picture.
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/ 12 January 2011
Early estimates indicate 32 people died and nine were injured in the recent floods in Kwazulu-Natal and Guateng.
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/ 11 January 2011
Gauteng police seized an arms cache, including rocket launchers, limpet mines and assault rifles at a house in Katlehong, east of Johannesburg.
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/ 31 December 2010
The DA on Friday condemned the arrest of two <i>Sowetan</i> journalists and called for an investigation into possible corruption.
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/ 19 December 2010
Police were called in to stop clashes between delegates from Morocco and Western Sahara at the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students on Sunday.
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/ 16 December 2010
Heavy rainfall in Gauteng overnight has left many roads flooded which should be avoided by motorists and pedestrians, emergency services said.
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/ 15 December 2010
A 58-year-old grandfather on Tuesday testified in his bail hearing in Pretoria North that no child had ever been molested in his house.
Gauteng police are still searching for the ninth suspect in the family child pornography case that has shocked the country.
The grandfather accused of being involved in a child pornography ring with seven family members says the foster daughter was raped by someone else.
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/ 8 December 2010
Two children were directed during the making of pornographic videos, the Pretoria North Magistrate’s Court heard on Wednesday.
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/ 8 December 2010
At least 30 protesters from various civil society organisations, trade unions and political parties gathered ahead of the child porn case in Pretoria.
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/ 7 December 2010
The widow of Avhatakali Netshisaulu, the son of former <em>City Press</em> editor Mathatha Tsedu, was found guilty of her husband’s murder on Tuesday.
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/ 7 December 2010
Cosatu denied its plea for SACP members to leave their legislature positions was an attempt to replace Blade Nzimande with Zwelinzima Vavi.
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/ 4 December 2010
The alliance between the ANC, Cosatu, SACP and SANCO remains the biggest force for national liberation, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said.
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema said he would not pay the fine imposed on him by the Equality Court in Johannesburg.
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/ 2 December 2010
An expert found that former <em>City Press</em> editor Mathatha Tsedu’s son, Avhatakali Netshisaulu, was burnt alive in his car.
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/ 2 December 2010
The charges of consensual sexual penetration against three Jules High School pupils were provisionally withdrawn, the <em>Star</em> reported.
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/ 23 November 2010
The rights FNB had regarding the FNB Stadium in Soweto was removed with its demolition to build the new stadium, the Supreme Court of Appeal heard.