Afrikanerweerstandbeweging (AWB) leader Eugene Terre’Blanche might appeal Thursday’s Pretoria High Court judgement against his application to be declared a suitable candidate for correctional supervision.
Unarmed opposition and civil society groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) began informal talks on Friday with South African President Thabo Mbeki, aimed at finding common ground between them and the other belligerents in DRC’s war.
A group of conservative Afrikaner politicians on Saturday formed a new political party, which they said would cater specifically for the needs of South Africa’s former ruling white minority.
The African Union will this week suggest that Madagascar delay a general election planned for December 15, a senior South African official said on Sunday.
As police were rounding up suspected right-wing troublemakers in a countrywide swoop on Friday, a body purportedly representing such extremists threatened more violent attacks.
Contraventions of exchange control regulations in a transaction involving Nampak and Deutsche Bank should be referred to the prosecuting authority.
Medical students at the University of Pretoria could fight a proposed extra year of internship in the High or Constitutional court.
The police’s administrative structure is eating up its crime-fighting budget and the number of commissioners currently in the service dwarfs the number of generals in the SA National Defence Force.
Details of a mechanism to compel African states to practise good governance would still take some time to be finalised.
President Thabo Mbeki flew out to Grand Comore island on Sunday morning to attend the inauguration of the island’s new head of state Mze Abdou Soule El-Bak.
Over 90 farms and other residences are being raided in all provinces as part of a countrywide intelligence-driven operation which started in the early hours on Friday, police reported.
The government will pump R3,1-billion into the restructuring of higher education and R1,3-billion of this will be used to bail out universities and technikons in financial trouble.
South Africa was not giving up on its strife-torn northern neighbour Zimbabwe, the presidency recently said.
Home Affairs director-general Billy Masetlha could be replaced within weeks following months of public quibbles with Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
Traditional leaders will not have powers equal to those of democratically elected lawmakers, according to a draft white paper on the role of amakhosi, released in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Correctional Services Minister Ben Skosana on Sunday proposed restorative justice as a better way of punishing offenders than the retributive method currently used.
The Health Department on Wednesday said it had reached agreement on protocols for the provision of antiretroviral drugs to rape survivors.
The lawyers of thousands of South Africans suffering from asbestos-related diseases said on Monday they would return to the United Kingdom High Court in an effort to force mining company Cape Plc to pay overdue settlement claims.
Business must help ensure that the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development produces more consensus than disagreement, business leader Tokyo Sexwale said on Wednesday.
THE Pretoria Regional Court had not been presented with any evidence on which Riccardo Ghiazza and Wayne Stockigt could be convicted of abusing elephants from the Tuli block in Botswana.
ABOUT 40 animal activists on Friday marched outside the South Korean embassy in Pretoria protesting against that country’s dog and cat meat trade.
The brother of Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa was found dead in an Arcadia hotel in Pretoria on Saturday morning, police said. Mwanawasa, who arrived in the country on Thursday, was in South Africa on private business.
A large arms cache comprising missiles and mortar bombs was destroyed in Mozambique recently as part of an exercise to rid the country of weapons, the South African Police Services (SAPS) said on Thursday.
Analysts and political parties agreed on Monday that right-wing elements who had ”declared war” on the government and were plotting to overthrow it by armed force posed little real danger.
One need not return any favours for accepting a bribe in order to be guilty of corruption, the trial of former African National Congress Chief Whip and businessman Michael Woerfel heard on Tuesday.
After refusing flatly to address the local media in Pretoria on the indecent assault claims he is facing, England’s Manchester United club manager Sir Alex Ferguson on Saturday opened up to the British media and rejected the allegations.
Up to five million needy children qualifying for government’s monthly cash grants still go hungry, despite over R1-billion idling in government coffers.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the flamboyant ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, will appear in court again on Monday on 85 charges of fraud and theft.
THE two men accused of maltreating the Tuli elephants in 1998 on a plot near Brits in the North West, had three charges dropped against them in the Pretoria Regional Court on Friday.
Two South African soldiers guarding the home of a Burundi minister were wounded on Sunday when a shell exploded in their vicinity, the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) confirmed.
An alleged paedophile brought his trial in the Pretoria High Court to a temporary halt with an angry, tearful outburst in which he described the investigating officer in his case as a liar and threatened to get even with him.
South Africa convened the first meeting on Friday of an advisory body aimed at halting money laundering in the country, which officials say may amount to between billion and billion a year.