South Africa’s intelligence services will ensure that ”mad rightwingers” threatening the peace will regret the day they were born, Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on Friday.
The latest hotel occupancy statistics confirm Tourism Minister Valli Moosa’s description of South Africa as a ”hot” tourist destination.
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terre’Blanche has received a second chance at an early release from prison.
The Noupoort Christian Care Centre said it would refuse a government-appointed investigating team access for its probe into alleged human rights violations at the Northern Cape drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility.
The South African Council for Educators has struck the names of 11 teachers off the roll during the past three months, in most cases because of sexual misconduct.
On the eve of a Cabinet meeting at which the ”reconfiguration” of higher education is to be discussed, technikon heads on Tuesday expressed concern about rumoured plans to do away with their institutions.
A team of South African officials will leave on Wednesday to attend the Burundi peace talks in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam.
President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday he was disturbed by a newspaper report that his government had refused to help fund a project aimed at preventing a San language from becoming extinct, and stated that he was making an undertaking to do so.
Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi reaffirmed on Thursday the right of South Africans holding dual citizenship to use their foreign passports abroad.
Two men appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of defrauding the Road Accident Fund.
After spending the weekend in jail, Gaye Derby-Lewis was granted R3 000 bail in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu on Friday received his 99th honorary degree, this time from the University of Pretoria.
South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki opened a fresh round of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) peace talks in Pretoria on Friday, urging delegates to be ready to compromise.
President Thabo Mbeki is expected to throw his weight behind those opposing unilateral United States military action against Iraq when he addresses the United Nations this week.
The way proceeds from the Lotto are being distributed leaves much to be desired, Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya said on Tuesday.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s former personal banker, Dikeledi Seakalema, will continue her testimony in the fraud and theft trial of the African National Congress Women’s League president on Wednesday.
Mike Lawrie, the administrator of the ZA domain on the internet, on Friday denied that he would shut it down should the government take over its administration.
ALMOST a year after a 16-year-old heroin addict was allegedly murdered at a rehabilitation centre at Noupoort, one of its employees was arrested for apparently assaulting two patients, Northern Cape police said on Tuesday.
After more than a month on the run, two men allegedly linked to a rightwing plot to overthrow the government were arrested in the Free State on Friday.
Police have arrested five of the six men wanted in connection with October’s Soweto and Bronkhorstpruit bombings and unearthed explosives ”clearly designed to kill”, a statement said on Wednesday.
None of the members of the Myburgh Commission of inquiry into the depreciation of the rand could offer conclusive reasons for the slide.
CHURCH leaders will face criminal charges if they fail to report sexual abuse cases, the Justice Department warned after the Catholic Church recently resolved not to report such offenders from within its ranks but rather deal with them internally.
The South African government condemned both Israel and Palestinians for actions against each other which claimed several lives.
President Thabo Mbeki, his Nigerian counterpart Olusegun Obasanjo and Australian Prime Minister John Howard are to meet in Abuja, Nigeria, on Monday to review the situation in Zimbabwe, the Foreign Affairs Department said on Wednesday.
The slow response of the international community to help relieve Africa’s food shortages could partly be ascribed to donor fatigue.
The European Union has provisionally agreed to recognise South Africa’s quality control systems for fresh fruit and vegetables exported to Europe, the government said on Wednesday.
A prison gang ”general”, who confessed to executing one of his ”soldiers” because he ”broke the rules” was sentenced to life in prison in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will address about 10 000 people expected to take part in a protest march next weekend.
Jo’burg Summit: ‘We want action’
One of various acronyms in health jargon, PLWHA, is meant to describe people living with HIV/Aids, but, according to the government, all South Africans in fact live with the virus.
Someone blew two notes on a kudu horn from the court door as alleged bus murderer De Wet Kritzinger entered the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
South Africa is considering a UN request to send about 1 500 soldiers to enforce a peace deal between Rwanda and the DRC.
Dr Eugene Berg, the Cape Town advocate who helped Pretoria millionaire attorney Albert Vermaas to establish a bank to channel millions of rand into an unlawful investment scheme, was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison.