Bertrams, a run-down suburb adjacent to Ellis Park, has been set for a facelift from the day that South Africa was awarded the football World Cup.
Electricity authorities on Monday called for action to deal with a R25-billion maintenance backlog that could further stifle economic growth.
The banking industry will install new ATMs throughout the country despite recent bombings, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre said on Monday.
The Pretoria High Court on Monday sentenced Andrew Jordaan to life imprisonment for the murder of seven-year-old Sheldean Human.
South Africa’s power crisis poses a threat to economic growth and the government’s efforts to reduce unemployment and poverty, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Monday.
About 8 000 members of the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) are to continue striking in Ekurhuleni on Monday, said the union.
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour questioned escapee Annanias Mathe at the Pretoria prison on Saturday to learn more about the circumstances of Mathe’s latest attempt to escape.
It was just a farm, but what went on there was extraordinary: Nelson Mandela, disguised in blue overalls, plotting with other anti-apartheid leaders against South Africa’s racist regime.
Bafana Bafana set their 2010 African Nations Cup qualifying campaign back on track with a stunning 4-1 win over Equatorial Guinea.
The Johannesburg High Court on Friday dismissed with costs an application to halt Vodacom’s R7,5-billion BEE deal.
Ten armed robbers tried and failed to break into a van delivering money to a supermarket in Mabopane, Pretoria police said on Saturday.
American comedian Chris Rock found time to drop in on unsuspecting comedy fans at a Johannesburg restaurant on Sunday night.
The Japanese philosophy kaizen (improvement) epitomises Wesbank’s decision to reduce consumption and promote efficiency in the workplace.
Annanias Mathe, one the country’s most notorious criminals, has tried to escape from prison again.
Members of the South African National Defence Force Union on Friday called for Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota to step down.
The fifth anniversary of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> Greening the Future Awards was celebrated at a black-tie event in Johannesburg on June 5.
The Gauteng Conservancy Association’s community-based approach has spread into nearly 30 conservancies in the province.
A meeting of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) was under way on Friday to consider an allegation levelled against Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
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Two life sentences are an appropriate punishment for convicted murderer Andrew Jordaan, the Pretoria High Court heard on Friday.
With only one more practice session left before the Special Olympics golf tournament, about 100 children with disabilities arrived in high spirits at the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club in Linksfield.
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If you followed the media after Bafana Bafana’s loss to Nigeria, you would have thought the result was one of football’s greatest shocks.
Andrew Jordaan, the convicted killer of seven-year-old Sheldean Human, was described on Thursday both as a paedophile and someone too gentle to be a murderer.
A woman sitting on a basket quietly stirs a pan of spinach on a paraffin stove. Children run around noisily between plastic bags, suitcases, blankets and mattresses.
Traffic in central Johannesburg came to a standstill on Thursday as thousands of South African Municipal Workers’ Union members marched through the city’s streets.
A 30-year-old man is in a critical condition after falling down an elevator shaft from the 10th floor of a building in Pretoria on Thursday.
The businessman at the centre of the controversy surrounding an alleged R500 000 cash donation to the South African Communist Party (SACP) demanded on Thursday that the police ”get a move on” with the investigation into what happened to the money.
Tensions that triggered a backlash against foreigners last month are likely to simmer for years as South Africa’s poor domestic skills base forces it to rely on migrant labour.
Reintegration of displaced xenophobia victims into the communities where they come from is the government’s priority, Cabinet ministers and provincial politicians said on Wednesday.
About 142 court cases linked to xenophobic violence have been opened countrywide, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Tlali Tlali said 102 of these were in Gauteng. Provincial police liaison officers approached said none of the 142 cases had reached the conviction stage yet.