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.
Police investigating right-wing activities in the country on Saturday refused to disclose further information on the second phase of Operation Hopper — aimed at enforcing the Arms and Ammunitions Act.
In recent by-elections around the country, the African National Congress (ANC) won six seats while the Democratic Alliance (DA) won three.
The search for the remains of up to five people who drowned after their vehicle was swept away by heavy flood waters near Amatikulu, was continuing, the KwaZulu-Natal road traffic inspectorate said on Sunday.
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.