Year-on-year consumer price inflation less mortgage costs declined to 7,7% last month from 8,5% in April, Statistics SA reported on Tuesday.
At least 60% of pupils will get access to free basic education in terms of an action plan approved by the cabinet last week, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Tuesday.
Nearly a month after it was first to have started, the trial of 22 alleged Boeremag members is to resume in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday with no clarity yet on outstanding issues regarding legal aid.
South Africa was awarded a R19-million grant from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition which would be used in support of the country’s food fortification programme, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
Some underdevelopment challenges could only be met by a global transfer of resources from the rich to the poor, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday.
Accusations of incompetence and unreasonableness were levelled against the Legal Aid Board on Monday as the Pretoria High Court treason trial of 22 alleged rightwingers was postponed for the third time.
The trial of 22 alleged members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation is to resume in the Pretoria High Court on Monday, with no indication of whether it would actually get underway.
A National Intelligence Agency employee was among three men arrested on Saturday, after one of his alleged armed robbery accomplices was involved in a shoot out with police.
Apartheid government chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson is seeking reinstatement in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).
President Thabo Mbeki’s younger brother Moeletsi slammed black economic empowerment in its current form on Wednesday, saying only a few people were being enriched.
Africa had bitten off as much aid as it could chew with the development package the G8 industrialised nations had agreed to fund, President Thabo Mbeki said on Tuesday.
A South African non-governmental organisation is to deliver a R7-million, 30-ton aid consignment to Iraq this week, the foreign affairs department said on Wednesday.
The Pretoria High Court refused on Tuesday to intervene in the process preceding the construction of a nuclear reactor at Koeberg near Cape Town.
The first round of talks on a free trade treaty between the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) and the United States got underway in Pretoria on Monday.
Poor road conditions added an estimated R3,8-billion to transport costs in South Africa annually, the SA National Consumer Union heard on Friday.
Efforts by three African leaders to broker peace in Zimbabwe were being jeopardised by their continuing support for President Robert Mugabe, a Zimbabwean economist said on Wednesday.
New home affairs Director General Barry Gilder signed his contract with Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Tuesday.
Gaye Derby-Lewis, wife of former Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis, was acquitted on one of three charges against her in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday.
Wrangling over legal aid delayed the Pretoria High Court treason trial of 22 alleged Boeremag members on Monday to June 9.
The Catholic Church in Southern Africa has promised to take harsh action against priests accused of sexual misconduct and says it will dismiss members of the clergy who are found guilty of abuse.
There has been an error in the calculation of South Africa’s consumer inflation figures, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel confirmed on Monday.
The South African government condemned on Tuesday ”in the strongest possible terms” the latest spate of suicide bombings in the Middle East.
Twenty-two alleged members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation are to go on trial for treason on Monday over a suspected plot to overthrow the government.
A group of workers protested at the Ga-Rankuwa hospital, north-west of Pretoria, on Thursday against its renaming after the late Dr George Mukhari.
The largest post-apartheid security operation for a court case is to get underway in Pretoria next week when 23 alleged members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation go on trial for high treason.
”Outrageously high” subsidies paid to farmers in rich countries had to be curtailed to enable those in the developing world to compete as equals, British foreign secretary Jack Straw said on Wednesday.
A lesbian couple was granted leave to appeal on Monday to the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein against the Pretoria High Court’s refusal to legalise their marriage.
The global toll from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) climbed above 500 dead and 7 000 infected on Thursday as the World Health Organisation declared that the disease is far more deadly than it previously thought.
Standard and Poor’s (S&P) has joined other international ratings agencies in raising its long term foreign currency ratings on South Africa, the National Treasury said on Thursday.
Visiting Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim on Wednesday wound up meetings with South African officials ahead of an expected visit by newly elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.