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’
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.
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.
The Scorpions arrested two men, one a police inspector, in connection with Road Accident Fund (RAF) fraud on Wednesday.
The extent of unpaid debt in South Africa declined in the first six months of this year compared with the same period last year, Statistics SA reported on Thursday.
The government and internet company Host City reached an out-of-court settlement on Monday in a dispute over the e-mail address, ‘[email protected]’.
COMMERCIAL criminals ”pardoned” by bodies like the Heath Commission’s special investigative unit could now face criminal charges, Justice Minister Penuell Maduna said on Friday.
Full-scale talks on the future of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) resume in Pretoria on Monday, but behind-the-scenes negotiators have failed to resolve deep divisions between the government and rebels on power-sharing.
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.
Cabinet has decided to reduce the number of higher education institutions from 36 to 21, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Thursday.
The Israeli government and the Palestinian people should move beyond retribution and revenge, says SA’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, Aziz Pahad.
South Africa posted another robust trade surplus of R3,84-billion in April, official data showed on Friday, narrower than the previous month but still enough to bolster the rand’s recovery.
The South African Air Force’s new intercontinental Boeing business jet, which will be used by the president and senior government officials, landed at Waterkloof airbase minutes after midnight on Tuesday.
The anti-Aids drug nevirapine is now available at all public hospitals in Gauteng, provincial premier Mbhazima Shilowa said on Tuesday.
Employees in the formal non-agricultural business sector earned on average R5725 per month in February 2002, some 12,4% more than a year before.
Except for a quietly murmured ”praise God” in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday, an eerie silence followed the conviction of a respected Mamelodi doctor for the murder of his wife.
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.