The 2012 budget has been largely welcomed, though parties and unions have voiced concerns over infrastructure spending, tolling plans and wage issues.
Most political and private players say they were satisfied with the budget for 2012, adding the emphasis on infrastructure was promising.
Growing outrage over the killing of a Soweto teenager, apparently by a student police officer, has put police brutality under the spotlight again.
The ANC Youth League has rubbished reports that Julius Malema launched a vicious attack on the judiciary in a closed session of the league’s lekgotla.
Donovan Moodley has lost his bid for a retrial, but the NPA will continue to investigate whether others were involved in the murder of Leigh Matthews.
Julius Malema’s bid to stay out of the political wilderness begins in earnest today, as the appeal against his suspension from the ANC kicks off.
Pravin Gordhan has put embattled Limpopo officials in their place amid claims that provincial saboteurs are undermining the central government’s work.
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After much infighting between the SABC board and shareholders, Lulama Mokhobo has been appointed as the SABC’s new group chief executive officer.
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/ 16 January 2012
TopTV may not broadcast pornography channels without the permission of Icasa, the South Gauteng High Court has ruled.
Enoch Godongwana insists his resignation as deputy minister of economic development is not due to a probe into how R100m in union money disappeared.
Dr Ali Bacher will today explain a R5m payout cited by Cricket SA boss Gerald Majola as a precedent for his own controversial handling of bonuses.
A woman has been crushed to death in a stampede at the University of Johannesburg, after applicants desperate for a berth rushed the varsity’s gates.
The ANC centenary celebrations formally commenced on Saturday with a traditional cleansing ceremony in Waaihoek.
The DA wants Menzi Simelane to pay for the appeal against the ruling invalidating his NPA job, even though ConCourt must review the case anyway.
The transport minister agrees it is unlawful to confiscate drivers’ licences on the spot, but remains set on forcing reckless motorists off the road.
Presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj has panned media reports about Jacob Zuma’s comments on Christianity, saying it was lost in translation.
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Despite South Africa’s pleas for clemency, China has executed Janice Bronwyn Linden from KwaZulu-Natal for smuggling drugs into the country in 2008.
Thabo Mbeki has demanded evidence of allegations that newly appointed SIU head Willem Heath had initiated two criminal cases against Jacob Zuma.
The Donen report on allegations of illicit activities in the UN’s Iraq oil for food programme has found that no South African law was broken.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon says a deadlock at COP17 place the world in dire peril, amid scientists’ further warnings of increased, runaway climate change.
The UN climate talks enter their second week amid a tangled high-level stand-off and violent clashes between protesters and official COP17 volunteers.
Corrupt former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi collapsed at his home after his attempt to have his corruption conviction failed.
The NPA says Jackie Selebi must begin serving his 15-year sentence for corruption within 48 hours, after the former top cop lost his appeal on Friday.
The Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed former top cop Jackie Selebi’s bid to have his corruption conviction and 15-year jail sentence overturned.
Legal analysts say the judgment on Thursday ruling Menzi Simelane’s appointment invalid reflects poorly on President Jacob Zuma’s legal decisions.
President Jacob Zuma’s appointment of Menzi Simelane as NPA boss was "inconsistent with the Constitution and invalid," the supreme court has ruled.
Côte d’Ivoire’s former leader Laurent Gbagbo has landed in Rotterdam en route to the ICC, where he faces charges of crimes against humanity.
The UN climate talks in Durban have kicked off amid distrust over carbon cuts, and worries that the Kyoto Protocol will be "murdered on African soil".
After barring journalists from attending the probe into Cricket SA, Judge Chris Nicholson has changed his mind and opened the inquiry to the media.
The Hawks will investigate Mac Maharaj’s criminal charges against the M&G, a move slammed by editor Nic Dawes as "an abuse of state resources".
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The secrecy Bill will be challenged in the Constitutional Court if the National Council of Provinces and President Zuma fail to fix the legislation.
Presidency spokesperson Mac Maharaj’s criminal charges against the M&G has been escalated to the Hawks.