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.
The labour department will take the strongest possible action against employers who tested domestic workers for HIV/Aids and drove them away if they tested positive, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said.
Cabinet has cancelled the sale process of the Komatiland Forest, for which Zama Resources had been named the preferred bidder, Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe said on Friday.
South African President Thabo Mbeki on Monday chided African leaders for not consulting their people and failing to keep promises made while fighting for liberation.
At least R260-million will be spent this year on research and development to boost the competitiveness of South African industry, the National Research Foundation said.
A man who threatened to set himself alight on top of an eight-storey building in central Pretoria was taken into custody on Wednesday morning.
Former State President PW Botha told a rightwing group planning a coup d’etat that elections were not the way of ensuring a future white government in South Africa, the Pretoria Regional Court heard on Thursday.
South Africa’s population rose by an average of
657 532 annually between 1996 and 2002, bringing the total figure from 42-million in 1996 to 46-million in 2002.
Almost a quarter of all South Africans older than 25 had not attended school by the time of the 1996 census, according to a recent report.
The South African government would not force the British multinational Cape PLc to clean up old asbestos mines.
Education minister Kader Asmal has withdrawn conditions banning newspapers from making any editorial comment on the initial matriculation results released by his department later this year.
The average monthly salary in the measured component of the formal non-agricultural business sector increased by 11% in August compared to the same period last year, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday.
Police unearthed a major arms cache in Limpopo on Friday, which they believed was linked to an alleged plot by rightwingers to overthrow the government.
The Institute for Security Studies confirmed on Wednesday that South Africans were in the Ivory Coast to help that government quell a rebellion, but said they could not be labelled mercenaries.
The fraud and corruption trial of former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni and businessman Michael Woerfel is to get underway after the Pretoria High Court declined to intervene.
”Dental reasons” have reduced the number of troops that can be deployed internationally at one South African infantry battalion from 612 to a mere 138.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma denied allegations that he attempted to secure a bribe from one of the companies involved in the controversial arms deal, his representative Lakela Kaunda said on Friday.
Scorpions probe Jacob Zuma
The Congress of SA Trade Unions’ has accused the government of conducting a propaganda campaign against it after President Thabo Mbeki expressed concern that the trade union federation failed to attend a meeting on Friday.
A company attempting to make money out of gold coins bearing the face of former president Nelson Mandela was ordered to cease operating by the Department of Trade and Industry on Friday.
A military intelligence officer who allegedly forewarned his superiors about last month’s bomb blasts in Soweto will be tried for misconduct following an incident of alleged insubordination on
an unrelated matter.
South Africans consumed up to 80% of the world’s Mandrax and accounted for the second largest quantity of cannabis seized anywhere in the world after Mexico, reveals a United Nations report.
Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) chief executive officer Trevor Abrahams said on Saturday he would only comment on allegations of impropriety and misconduct against him once the investigation had been completed.
The value of duty-free exports from South Africa to the United States in the first quarter of this year was R2,6-billion — 83% more than exports in the same period last year.
One of the police officers investigating the case against an alleged Satanist could not testify on Friday as she was on sick leave as a result of stress caused by the investigation, the Pretoria High Court was told.
Talks are on the cards to resolve the tussle over internet domain administration in South Africa, the parties said this week.
Iraq has approached the United Nations to call for the lifting of sanctions imposed on the country in the 1980s.
The prime interest rate will remain steady at 17 percent after the SA Reserve Bank opted not to adjust the repo rate on Thursday.
Total new vehicle sales for June fell by 13,3 percent from the figure for the same month last year — or from 32379 to 28374 units — the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of SA said on Tuesday.
Her 11-year-old son could move objects with his eyes while in a trance-like state, a mother told the Pretoria High Court on Thursday.
A 19-year-old first offender, Joseph Masemola, was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a two-year-old baby boy during an armed robbery at the boy’s Groenkloof home.
The mother of two toddlers who were slain by their father when he realised that she had left him, told the Pretoria High Court she would never forgive him.