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.
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.
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.
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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.
Political parties gave mixed signals on their willingness to reveal their sources of private funding. Their views, voiced at a seminar in Centurion, ranged from conditional support for disclosure to calls for a proper inquiry into the matter.
Lambert Mende, a leader of one of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) many rebel factions said on Friday the next round of peace talks in South Africa, were bound to fail.
A picture of total chaos preceding the deaths last year of 43 people in a stampede at Johannesburg’s Ellis Park stadium was painted in the final report by a commission of inquiry.
Organised crime syndicates are increasingly using forged identity documents to defraud vehicle dealers, Business Against Crime said on Tuesday.
Former African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Tony Yengeni asked Michael Woerfel to get him a luxury car at a 50% discount, the businessman said on Friday.
The number of South Africans carrying the HIV virus that causes Aids appeared to be stabilising, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday.
African academics all want to be involved in NEPAD, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, recognising it, despite reservations, as an unprecedented effort to pull the continent up by its bootstraps.
In the application to have the ”crossing-the-floor” legislation declared unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court was told the defection law in question diminishes the Constitution and ”devalues the vote”.
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.
Poor people would be able to buy a 12,5kg bag of maize at nearly half price in terms of a deal struck between the government and the private sector, Cabinet announced on Thursday.
Citing the Iraq situation, South African President Thabo Mbeki stressed on Thursday the role of the United Nations in bringing about peace in the world.
Five men had been arrested in two incidents in Pretoria for possession of Aldicarb — a drug used to poison pets, especially dogs, by would-be burglars, police said.
Maximum access was necessary to dispel any suspicion of a cover-up in the probe into South Africa’s multi-billion rand arms deal, a Pretoria High Court Judge said on Friday.
There is no trace of a letter purportedly sent to the President Thabo Mbeki to warn him about the recent Soweto bombings, the presidency said on Wednesday.