South African detectives arrested six directors of Krion Financial Services — an alleged pyramid scheme — on Tuesday, and seized assets of 45 agents of the firm in five provinces, detective services’ Martin Aylward said.
South Africa’s Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma met Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah.
There are almost 100 000 legalised refugees in the country, the Department of Home Affairs said on Thursday, World Refugee Day.
South Africa’s targeted CPIX inflation rate rose by 8,8% in the year to April compared to 8% in the year to March.
THE South African police hoped to reopen about one million unsolved criminal cases by the end of the year.
SOUTH African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will lead a delegation of ministers from the 114-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to the Middle East to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the government announced on Tuesday.
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Police raided the homes of several rightwingers on Friday in the wake of recent bombings blamed on the far right and threats of more violence.
The anti-Aids drug nevirapine is now available at all public hospitals in Gauteng, provincial premier Mbhazima Shilowa said on Tuesday.
Employees in the formal non-agricultural business sector earned on average R5725 per month in February 2002, some 12,4% more than a year before.
Except for a quietly murmured ”praise God” in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday, an eerie silence followed the conviction of a respected Mamelodi doctor for the murder of his wife.
Labour inspections on most farms were often difficult to carry out as farmers denied government officials access to their properties, the inquiry into human rights violations on farming communities heard on Wednesday.
Mike Lawrie, administrator of the ZA domain on the internet, on Thursday said he had moved a major control mechanism abroad until stability returned to the issue of who controlled the domain.
A 28-year-old Vereeniging farm foreman, who earlier this week tearfully said he would never be able to forgive himself for murdering three farm workers in May this year, was sentenced to an effective 20 years imprisonment on Thursday.
Dealing with the right-wing threat in the country should include a kind of political solution besides arresting the bomb planters, Martin Schonteich, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, said on Thursday.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s personal assistant told the Pretoria Regional Court on Thursday she ”quite correctly” put him straight when he raised concerns about letters allegedly used to fraudulently obtain loans from Saambou Bank.
Retired military generals and top ANC figures recently reached agreement on a form of extended amnesty.
A review of governance of South Africa’s five major banking groups will be undertaken, Registrar of Banks Christo Wiese said on Wednesday.
Playwright Mbongeni Ngema’s controversial song ”AmaNdiya” may not be distributed to persons under the age of 18 years, the Film and Publication Board said on Friday.
Cabinet has decided to reduce the number of higher education institutions from 36 to 21, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Thursday.
The Israeli government and the Palestinian people should move beyond retribution and revenge, says SA’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, Aziz Pahad.
South Africa posted another robust trade surplus of R3,84-billion in April, official data showed on Friday, narrower than the previous month but still enough to bolster the rand’s recovery.
The South African Air Force’s new intercontinental Boeing business jet, which will be used by the president and senior government officials, landed at Waterkloof airbase minutes after midnight on Tuesday.
The four Grootvlei Prison inmates who videotaped their warders selling drugs, alcohol, firearms and juvenile ”sex slaves” to inmates have been given 24-hour protection.
President Pierre Buyoya of Burundi is to hold talks with Deputy President Jacob Zuma in Pretoria on Friday on the peace process in that country, the foreign affairs ministry said.
Pretoria police are investigating the death of a 10-month-old baby boy following a hijacking near Rosslyn, Pretoria on Saturday morning.
A 21-year-old Pretoria youth, who stands accused of murdering his parents and brother, has blamed his dead brother for the killings.
Some University of South Africa (Unisa) staff members downloaded pornographic material from the internet and claimed overtime payment for the time spent watching that, principal Dr Barney Pityana said on Friday.
A Pretoria High Court judge on Tuesday described an argument on behalf of Tony Yengeni as ”preposterous” when it was suggested that the former ANC chief whip was protected from criminal prosecution by his parliamentary privilege.
The biggest Afrikaans church voted on Tuesday not to apologise for historical events that led to unfair land distribution.
The current tension between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) did not indicate an imminent split, say political analysts.
President Thabo Mbeki has met vice-chancellors of the historically disadvantaged universities and technikons, as part of government’s ongoing consultations with those affected by the planned restructuring.
A hotly contested bill to encourage e-commerce and take control of the South African domain name passed its final hurdle on Tuesday and will become law as soon as President Thabo Mbeki signs it.