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.
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.
The body of a third South African soldier was found on Sunday after one soldier drowned and three went missing during a water training exercise in Burundi.
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.
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.
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.
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.