The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal indicated on Friday it intended to pressure its national leaders to seek changes to the Constitution as soon as possible to allow floor-crossing at provincial and national level.
In the application to have the ”crossing-the-floor” legislation declared unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court was told the defection law in question diminishes the Constitution and ”devalues the vote”.
A programme to provide a basic amount of free water to every household in South Africa has now reached an estimated 27-million people.
KwaZulu-Natal has historically been one of South Africa’s more volatile provinces. With political tensions on the rise again, some analysts fear there may be potential for renewed conflict.
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Njongonkulu Ndungane says it is perhaps time Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang quits and looks for another job.
Over 90 farms and other residences are being raided in all provinces as part of a countrywide intelligence-driven operation which started in the early hours on Friday, police reported.
South Africa’s first Beer Route was launched on Wednesday by the KwaZulu-Natal tourism department in conjunction with five independent micro breweries.
The lawyers of thousands of South Africans suffering from asbestos-related diseases said on Monday they would return to the United Kingdom High Court in an effort to force mining company Cape Plc to pay overdue settlement claims.
DEFENCE Minister Mosiuoa Lekota has stated publicly that the government’s attempts to end the economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe had failed, his representative said on Saturday.
The cause of Saturday’s fire at the Empangeni Road Traffic Inspectorate was arson, the KwaZulu-Natal department of transport has confirmed.
The Department of Correctional Services is probing why six successful job applicants all gave the Cape Town residence of an African National Congress MP as their home address.
Political control changed hands in 21 municipalities in four provinces following a 15-day floor-crossing window period for local councillors — 13 of them in the Western Cape, it emerged on Friday.
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
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.
Police believed they had destroyed whatever infrastructure the right-wing Boeremag organisation had, government representative Joel Netshitenzhe said on Thursday.
As police were rounding up suspected right-wing troublemakers in a countrywide swoop on Friday, a body purportedly representing such extremists threatened more violent attacks.
SOUTH Africa and Lesotho signed a five year agreement worth about R2,3-billion in Maseru on Wednesday that aims to uplift the landlocked kingdom.
Three people froze to death in the Eastern Cape’s snowy weather at the weekend, bringing the total number of people dying as a result of the country-wide cold weather to 21.
Contrary to popular belief, South Africans were satisfied with the level of service they received from local banks.
A bid by the African National Congress (ANC) to secure continued protection for five provincial-level defectors who jumped the gun has been rejected by the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
Rightwingers including the killers of struggle hero Chris Hani will be considered for presidential pardon, says Justice Minister Penuell Maduna.
KwaZulu-Natal Midlands police said there had been no arrests or developments following the murder of a couple and the kidnapping of their 13-year-old son by gunmen in Wartburg, New Hanover.
A 31-year-old man was arrested in Tsakane near Boksburg for allegedly selling his 18-day-old baby.
The ashes of a South African man considered to be the ”last hero of the Titanic” will be scattered off the country’s east coast after his death last month at age 104, a relative said Thursday.
Another initiate is feared dead after his friend escaped from an initiation school in Heidelberg on the East Rand on Sunday to seek help, police said.
The teenager apparently escaped after he discovered that the boy sleeping next to him was dead.
The country’s fiercest political rivals and one time allies, the Democratic Alliance and the New National Party on Friday used poll results to claim superiority over each other in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.
Three political parties have expressed concern and outrage about the use of the slogan ”Kill the Boer, kill the farmer” at the funeral of the African National Congress MP Peter Mokaba.
South Africa’s highest court has ruled that elected politicians at the municipal level of government may defect to another party without losing their seats.
Former President Nelson Mandela on Monday chided younger African National Congress members for being unaware of the role played by the South African Communist Party in the liberation struggle.
Two 27-year-old men have been sentenced to two life terms of imprisonment each for an attack on a honeymooning Polish couple two years ago, police said on Friday.
The ANC in Kwazulu-Natal has laid out a programme of action to consolidate and extend its support base if it takes over control of the provincial government after last week’s defection of five IFP MPs to the ANC.
Legislation allowing MPs, MPLs and councillors to cross the floor without losing their seats infringed upon the legal and moral rights of the people, the Constitutional Court heard on Tuesday.