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.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to 85 counts of fraud and theft charges involving nearly R1-million.
The government has made reparation payments of R50-million to 18 000 South Africans so far for harm they suffered under apartheid rule, says government representative Joel Netshitenzhe.
Two lawyers and five others were arrested in Gauteng on Tuesday for allegedly running an investment scam that promised ”the black empowerment opportunity of a lifetime.”
The official estimate of SA’s maize crop was ”over-optimistic” and may render the country unable to meet domestic demand.
Using a smart card, a fingerprint and a password, President Thabo Mbeki signed into law the Electronic Communications and Transactions (ECT) Bill.
South African President Thabo Mbeki will meet his Brazilian counterpart on Monday for bilateral talks and to take part in a public hearing on an upcoming United Nations (UN) summit, before flying to Canada for a Group of Eight (G8) summit.
Education Minister Kader Asmal on Monday called on Transport Minister Dullah Omar to request train operators to consider restricting the use of some train carriages for women only.
The Pretoria High Court reserved judgement on Wednesday in the application by jailed Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terre’Blanche to have his sentence converted to correctional supervision.
University of South Africa (UNISA) vice-principal of tuition Professor Simon Maimela has been dismissed, Unisa said on Monday.
There has been a ”wall of silence” from political parties in response to a request for them to disclose their private donors, researcher Richard Calland said on Thursday.
President Thabo Mbeki will meet U2 lead singer Bono, who is on a joint four-nation Africa tour, on Thursday afternoon at the Union buildings in Pretoria.
The SA Reserve Bank firmly stuck to its guns on the policy of inflation targeting on Tuesday, saying there was no prospect of a change in its approach.
The so-called ”People’s Poet” Mzwakhe Mbuli is to ask the Supreme Court of Appeal to overturn his 13-year jail sentence for robbing a Pretoria bank.
July will start on a good note for motorists with the announcement on Friday that the price of petrol was set to drop 18c and that of diesel by at least 11c.
Electricity utility Eskom has been given the go-ahead to raise its prices by 8,4% next year, the National Electricity Regulator (NER) announced on Monday.
A Roodepoort couple were sentenced to an effective 20 years each on Monday for torturing their 4-month-old baby girl to death and severely abusing the baby’s two-year-old sister for almost a year.
South Africa’s Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma met Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah.
South Africa’s chief justice on Thursday deplored the treatment meted out to a retired Zimbabwean judge facing criminal charges in his country, describing it as a threat to judicial independence.
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad said on Thursday he would be meeting the ambassadors of Russia, France and China to discuss the United Nations’ handling of the Iraqi situation.
Karl Greyvensteyn, the young waiter convicted of murdering his parents and brother at their home in Lynnwood Glen two years ago, on Monday sat sobbing quietly before being given three life terms.
Telkom is to challenge a ruling by the Independent
Communications Authority of South Africa that its refusal to supply certain services to two value-added network service (Vans) providers was illegal.
The corruption trial of former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni and businessman Michael Woerfel is to be heard in the Special Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria in July.
South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni has opposed the government’s plans for a single financial regulator, fuelling speculation of a rift with the Treasury over the issue.
The Delta Motor Corporation was granted an interim interdict on Friday evening prohibiting the son of a prominent politician from exhibiting his car, which is covered in slogans denouncing the company.
A number of recently-appointed North West traffic officials could lose their jobs if it was found their driver’s licences were fake, the provincial transport department said on Friday.
The SA National Defence Force is planning to conduct a major exercise in the Free State and Northern Cape in September.
An information technology (IT) recruitment company on Monday said reports of a ”brain drain” of professionals out of the country often ignored the numbers returning to South Africa, often with enhanced skills.
A wildlife expedition from Pretoria will depart to Angola this week to find out whether the Giant Sable antelope has survived the civil war.
South Africa’s targeted CPIX inflation measure vaulted to record high in August, official data showed on Tuesday, supporting the Reserve Bank’s decision last week to raise interest rates for the fourth time this year.
Transport minister Dullah Omar said on Friday he supported the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) suspension of its chief executive, Trevor Abrahams, calling on Abrahams to co-operate with the investigation.
President Thabo Mbeki became the first recipient of South Africa’s new national orders on Monday.