The South African government would not force the British multinational Cape PLc to clean up old asbestos mines.
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.
ALMOST a year after a 16-year-old heroin addict was allegedly murdered at a rehabilitation centre at Noupoort, one of its employees was arrested for apparently assaulting two patients, Northern Cape police said on Tuesday.
South Africans are generally becoming more positive about the overall democratic regime and more optimistic about where it will be in ten years time.
Postmasburg farm worker linked to a plot to overthrow the government was arrested in the Northern Cape town on Thursday, police said.
The SA National Defence Force is planning to conduct a major exercise in the Free State and Northern Cape in September.
Leigh Day and Company, the lawyers representing several thousand South African asbestosis victims, said they would take legal action against Cape Plc for non-payment of expenses.
The African National Congress and the New National Party announced moves to cement their co-operation pact on Saturday in apparent anticipation of them jointly taking control of a number of municipal councils.
Two arms caches that may be connected with the alleged rightwing plot to topple the government were discovered on Tuesday and Wednesday, police said.
The Mail&Guardian’s own Khadija Magardie scooped an award at the prestigious CNN Journalist of the Year awards.
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.
Temperatures ranging from as little 2C to as high as 38,5C within only three weeks had damaged one of the most promising South African wheat crops in years.
Cabinet has decided to reduce the number of higher education institutions from 36 to 21, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Thursday.
Large numbers of South Africans could suffer serious eye injuries during the eclipse over the country on December 4 because of a shortage of eclipse viewing glasses, a company involved in preparations around the event warned on Thursday.
Lawyers for thousands of South Africans suffering from asbestos-related diseases are to return to the English High Court on Tuesday in a renewed bid for compensation.
Diamond giant De Beers has warned the country’s proposed minerals law could put R8,5-billion in investment at risk because it threatened mining companies’ security of tenure.
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.
The number of South Africans carrying the HIV virus that causes Aids appeared to be stabilising, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday.
A conservation campaign promoting South Africa’s yellowfish above the exotic bass and trout has elevated the indigenous species’ popularity with anglers so much that foreigners are starting to visit the country to add yellowfish to their trophy lists.
Supposedly ”laid back” Capetonians appear to be leading the way in fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits while working at the same time.
The number of people arrested in connection with diamond dealing in the Northern and Western Cape during the final phase of Operation Solitaire on Wednesday has reached 33.
A programme to provide a basic amount of free water to every household in South Africa has now reached an estimated 27-million people.
The National Development Agency (NDA) will spend R2,5-million in an effort to improve the lives of the San communities of the Kalahari and Schmidtsdrift in the Northern Cape.