SA’s nose may still be out of joint over Libya and Cote d’Ivoire, but US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit is unlikely to spark any friction.
Disgraced former police commissioner Jackie Selebi is at home again after a brief stint in hospital this week.
Gold medallist Chad le Clos has withdrawn from the final of the 200m individual medley at the London Olympics, to concentrate on the 100m butterfly.
Job growth has stagnated while the ANC dithers over how it will implement economic policy to spur flagging employment trends in South Africa.
The political wilderness is proving to be rather fertile territory for expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema.
Pressure has continued to mount on Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga as the ANC Youth League formally called for her resignation.
Analysts have warned the DA’s goal of 8% growth is not possible – at least, not in terms of the opposition party’s proposed economic growth plan.
Despite claims to the contrary, the ghost of former prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd lives on in South African society, says Nickolaus Bauer.
They’ve been told to bring home 12 Olympic medals, but experts and athletes say the intense pressure heaped upon Team SA is unfair, "almost suicidal".
Former president FW de Klerk has called on all South Africans to be more politically active to combat the ANC’s national democratic revolution.
South Africa has largely failed to provide equal opportunities to all citizens since the advent of democracy in 1994.
As shelters struggle to help the homeless endure winter, the only warmth many of Jo’burg’s outcasts are finding is in crack pipes and wine bottles.
Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi is fast becoming a serious contender for a senior ANC leadership position in Mangaung.
The national HIV mother-to-child transmission rate (MTCT) dropped to 2.7% in 2011, according to a Medical Research Council report.
The Limpopo textbook scandal is an indication that government has failed its people, according to Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi.
As SA celebrates Madiba’s birthday, it is becoming more protective of its hero amid growing criticism of how the man and his legacy are being "used".
Weakening trade conditions have added to the pressure on Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus to drop the repo rate this week.
Concerns have been raised over the future of home affairs after Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s election as the head of the AU Commission.
The supposed intimidation of Numsa’s Irvin Jim at the SACP conference has given rise to new claims of conspiracy and allegations of abuse of power.
South Africa lost one of its most prized cricketing assets when Mark Boucher was forced to call time on his cricket career, writes Nickolaus Bauer.
Newly appointed Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund believes the national team is destined for greatness under his guidance.
The ANC Youth League seems to be much more congenial in the post-Malema era. Nickolaus Bauer looks at how its roar softened to a media-friendly purr.
As the ANC debates the merits of nationalisation, investors are losing their appetite for the local mining market.
MEC Humphrey Mmemezi, who reportedly bought a painting worth R10 000 from a McDonald’s using government funds, will be fired by the premier.
All tertiary students will be compelled do an internship in the service of the state after graduating, the ANC has proposed at its policy conference.
The ANC has accepted an altered version of the "second transition" policy document – but it has nothing to do with Mangaung, says the ruling party.
Opposing factions have squared off at the ANC policy conference in Midrand – voicing their preferences between Jacob Zuma and Kgalema Motlanthe.
Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson has revealed South Africa will pursue far more radical land reform policies in the future.
The ANC has no plans to change the Constitution in the pursuit of radical economic reform, says the ruling party’s head of policy Jeff Radebe.
The Mangaung battle lines have begun to show after a showdown at the first day of the ANC policy conference in Midrand.
President Jacob Zuma says the ANC intends to enact dramatic economic reform, "and take those difficult decisions we could not take in 1994".
Policies adopted at ANC sessions this week will affect the entire nation, but the media aren’t welcome as the party "doesn’t want to hold back".