WITH relations strained between the IFP and the ANC, the IFP is considering holding a joint parliamentary caucus meeting with the DA as the parties explore new relations at a national level.
Five men were arrested after they kidnapped and robbed four taxi drivers in Mondeor, Johannesburg on Friday, police reported.
The latest hotel occupancy statistics confirm Tourism Minister Valli Moosa’s description of South Africa as a ”hot” tourist destination.
Four men were arrested over the weekend after a pastor and three children were stabbed to death in Newcastle on Thursday, KwaZulu-Natal police said.
The African National Congress has lost a Constitutional Court bid to ensure the protection of five KwaZulu-Natal legislature members who defected to the party before legislation allowing national and provincial floor-crossing was declared constitutional.
The United Democratic Movement will on Wednesday attempt to persuade the Constitutional Court that its application against the defection legislation should be heard as a matter of urgency.
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.
Retired military generals and top ANC figures recently reached agreement on a form of extended amnesty.
South Africans are generally becoming more positive about the overall democratic regime and more optimistic about where it will be in ten years time.
The number of South Africans carrying the HIV virus that causes Aids appeared to be stabilising, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday.
Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi gave his support on Friday to a campaign promoting abstinence from sex, presiding over a ceremony where abstaining youngsters were rewarded for their self-discipline.
The Global Fund for Aids bypassed the national government when donating R600-million to KwaZulu-Natal, said SA Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
Allowing KwaZulu-Natal legislature members who defected to the African National Congress from other political parties to temporarily retain their seats would undermine the constitution, the Constitutional Court heard.
The African National Congress’ leadership will meet with the Inkatha Freedom Party on Tuesday to get clarity on why two ANC MECs were sacked from the KwaZulu-Natal cabinet.
The SA Municipal Workers’ nation-wide strike got into full swing on Tuesday despite threats of disciplinary action by some municipalities in the Free State, Samwu claimed.
IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi says that despite rising tension between his organisation and the ANC, he and President Thabo Mbeki have yet to meet at party-to-party level to resolve differences.
The salvage team on the grounded Jolly Rubino off the northern Kwazulu-Natal coast had to be evacuated on Wednesday due to the intensifying fire on board, Smit Salvage said.
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 Jolly Rubino, the burning ship stuck on a sandbank off the ecologically sensitive St Lucia wetland and estuary in KwaZulu-Natal, is showing signs off breaking up, a KZN Wildlife official said.
Following Friday’s announcement that South African Bali blast victims Craig Harty and Godfrey Fitz were officially presumed dead, no further details could be released on the status of South Africans who remained on the island.
THE Constitutional Court has reserved judgement in the State’s appeal against a Pretoria High Court order that it roll out its antiretroviral programmes.
The wife of Ladysmith Black Mambazo leader Joseph Shabalala was shot and killed and Shabalala himself wounded at his Durban home on Wednesday night, KwaZulu-Natal police reported.
Pietermaritzburg is set to be the sole seat of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, despite opposition from the Inkatha Freedom.
The establishment of Sentech’s corporate social investment unit late last year and the appointment of Maureen Mphatsoe as manager, signals the company’s commitment to provide technical and other support for the burgeoning information and communication sector
Ice Station Johannesburg, an accredited parallel event to the World Summit for Sustainable Development, will host an art exhibition called ”Fantastic Rubbish”.
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.
A 31-year-old man was arrested in Tsakane near Boksburg on Monday for allegedly selling his 18-day-old baby.
The African National Congress (ANC) gained an overall majority in eThekwini municipality on Tuesday when six councillors took advantage of the floor-crossing legislation to join it.
Poet, playwright and song-writer Mbongeni Ngema said he stood by the issues raised in his controversial song ”AmaNdiya”, about the oppression of blacks by Indians.
Three political parties on Monday called on the Justice Department to release the details of the 33 prisoners who were granted a presidential pardon over the weekend.
The ANC said it had lost one of its stalwarts, Comrade Justice Maqina Mpanza, best known as Gizenga, who died on Tuesday after two days of illness.
A Tongaat man was shot dead and his son injured on their sugar cane plantation in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday morning, police said.