More has to be done to empower women and encourage female-owned businesses, which are integral to growing SA’s economy, says President Jacob Zuma.
Economist Chris Hart says the South African economy faces a major problem with its escalating levels of unemployment.
New research has shown a smaller proportion of South Africans are living at the bottom of the living standards rung in 2011 compared to 10 years ago.
A runaway hippo wallowing in a Cape Town lake will soon be sent away to a game reserve – if he can be captured safely, a tricky business at best.
Another painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed has gone on display, this time at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town.
The death of struggle veteran and academic Neville Alexander is a tragic loss to the country, the government, political parties and other bodies say.
British police are investigating reports of a lion being spotted in a field near a seaside town in the eastern county of Essex.
About 600 Woolworths workers face retrenchment or early retirement if they choose to not sign the new flexible-hour contracts.
The ANC Youth League in Cape Town will march to Premier Helen Zille’s office on Monday, but she said police were ready to meet marchers in her stead.
The Lonmin mine tragedy has been hijacked by "counter-revolutionaries" who wish to undermine the alliance, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe.
The government was responsible for the "massacre" at Marikana mine earlier this month, former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema wrote on Sunday.
Vavi has said the emergence of breakaway unions is "the biggest onslaught waged by the bourgeoisie against the living standards of the working class".
The DA has said that it tried to pass two bills to fight the scourge of corruption, but ANC blocked them saying they would hurt business.
Suspended ANCYL spokesperson Floyd Shivambu has rubbished claims by Cosatu that Malema is a "right wing leader" exploiting Lonmin miners.
Lonmin mines has estimated that at least 57% of workers across the eastern shaft at their Platinum mine in Marikana have returned to work.
A report alleging that arrested mine workers have been assaulted by the police was handed to Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa on Friday.
Political parties have welcomed the sacking of Parliament’s chief financial officer Leslie Mondo after being found guilty on of misconduct.
State officials and political leaders have joined more than a thousand residents at the memorial service for those killed in the Marikana massacre.
The ANC in the Eastern Cape is due to meet soon to decide whether the OR Tambo region is ready to resume its conference this weekend.
Eugene Terre’Blanche’s killer, farmhand Chris Mahlangu, has been sentenced to life in prison for the AWB leader’s murder last year.
Low-cost airline 1Time says its scheduled services will go ahead despite filing for business rescue to dig it out of R320-million of debt.
The Academic Staff Association says a second one-day strike by academic and support staff is to hit Wits University next week.
A witness in the Anni Dewani murder case was drunk the night he drove with her convicted killer and an alleged accomplice to Gugulethu.
Expelled ANCYL president Julius Malema has joined Lonmin miners in laying a murder charge against the police after last week’s shooting.
Text messages sent by Thandi Maqubela to her husband, acting judge Patrick Maqubela – whom she is accused of murdering, have been read out in court.
Media reports say a warrant of arrest has been issued for Mandla Mandela for failing to appear in court.
All Tshwane University of Technology campuses will be shut until further notice because of violent strikes, university management said.
A total of 260 Marikana protesters have been remanded in custody at the Ga-Rankuwa Magistrate’s Court, to allow for further investigations.
Police commissioner Riah Phiyega says officers shouldn’t be sorry about the shooting near Lonmin in Marikana, which left 34 protesting miners dead.
AU chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says the success of the AU is dependent on the implementation of decisions made by regional economic groups.
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize has rejected the DA’s calls for him to explain why charges against two provincial ANC officials have been dropped.
New Zealand-based Global Peace and Justice Auckland has blamed Zuma and the ANC-led government for a shootout at the Lonmin mine in Marikana.