Four people were injured at an apparently violent protest at a gold mine on Monday, four days after Julius Malema spoke in the area.
The National Prosecuting Authority did not admit to any error in the decision to charge the Marikana miners for the deaths of 37 of their colleagues.
A total of 77 751 South African jobs have been lost to Chinese imports between 2001 and 2010, according to a study released on August 31.
Without key forensic data, one’s interpretation of events at Marikana depends on what one wants to believe.
A week after the Marikana massacre, it is not yet clear what the long-term social, political and economic repercussions will be.
A week later there is still no consensus about what happened at Lonmin’s Marikana mine, and crucial questions are not being answered.
In apartheid SA, a situation like that in Marikana would have gone down very differently, according to an unreconstructed commander of the riot squad.
Tensions look set to reignite at Lonmin’s platinum mine as striking workers vow to defy demands by the company to return to work or face dismissal.
Julius Malema has told striking Marikana mine workers that they should die for their cause, and urged other mineworkers to join them.
President Jacob Zuma says a commission of inquiry will be established to investigate the cause of the Marikana shootout that led to over 30 deaths.
Educators welcome the call to extend compulsory education, but caution it would cost dearly.
If the National Planning Commission has its way, South Africans will spend an extra two years in school before matriculating.
SA’s roadmap for the next two decades is due to be accepted by President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday. Here’s how political manoeuvring has changed it.
Building Zumaville is going to be a challenge, potential town planners have been warned – not least because the president will be watching closely.
We all know what the children need. They need Margaret Thatcher.
It took more than nine years for the state to achieve its first conviction in the case but it has finally received a verdict: guilty of treason.
M&G editor-in-chief Nic Dawes and investigative reporters Sam Sole and Stefaans Brummer have been told they are suspects in a criminal investigation.
It’s clear the Boeremag plotters had a deadly serious intent. Phillip de Wet unpacks the plan to overthrow the SA government and start a race war.
Editor and reporters have been warned that they are suspected of stealing confidential records in a case brought forward by Mac Maharaj.
Meles Zenawi has cancer, or a brain tumour, or Aids, or has been poisoned by his wife, Ethiopian dissident groups have speculated.
The Hawks have confirmed that they are investigating a complaint of theft relating to the art of apartheid documentarian Durant Sihlali.
Gautrain staff won’t let passengers chew gum, but they’ll apparently let them walk the tracks if their train breaks down on their morning commute.
He may be the best watercolourist South Africa has ever seen, but Durant Sihlali went largely uncelebrated during his lifetime, writes Phillip de Wet.
Despite the movement restrictions imposed by the fact he is out on bail, Mafika Sihlali is a hard man to find. Phillip de Wet reports.
Soweto’s great art ‘rip-off’ – Late artist Durant Sihlali’s family is in a bitter dispute with ex-SABC lawyer Mafika Sihlali over his art collection.
Marxism is growing and so are the communists, but South Africa is not dancing with Marx just yet, writes Phillip de Wet.
The Goodman Gallery has appealed a ruling that children should be protected from the ‘Spear’ painting, saying the FPB does not have the authority.
A resolution of the wage dispute between the government and more than a million of its employees may be found before the end of July.
Only one foreign representative from the Democratic Alliance has been left standing, writes Phillip de Wet.
The policies adopted at the 4th ANC policy conference propose nothing more than change through the continuity of current government policy.
The ANC policy conference released a raft of recommendations late on Thursday. Some are surprising, some new. Others are downright unimplementable.
If you wanted a T-shirt with the face of Jacob Zuma or Kgalema Motlanthe on it, you were out of luck at the ANC policy conference.