The Public Protector and the <em>New Age</em> are at loggerheads over a report about the controversial R500-million lease for new police headquarters.
The traffic officer who shot dead a cricket official outside Sahara Park Newlands was granted bail on Friday.
Cosatu has accused the ANC and the government of soft-pedalling on labour broking to shield politically connected business people.
Mistakes had cropped up in the national 2010 matric report and at least three schools listed with a zero pass had in fact passed, the government said.
South Africa has sent an observer team of 35 to monitor a secession referendum in southern Sudan on Sunday.
A court hasrejected a bail appeal for Henry Okah, the suspected ex-militant leader accused of ordering car bombings on Nigeria’s independence day.
Development must be actively pursued, and that means corporate backing, writes <strong>Dylan Rogers</strong>.
Five men were arrested in the early hours of Friday morning Ehlanzeni district municipality chief whip Johan Holme Ndlovu.
The new exchange-control allowance of R4-million a year for South Africans means that investing in UK commercial property is now a real possibility.
The government appeared to be ducking and diving following a judgement handed down against a provincial minister who was caught driving at 235km/h.
Specialists are divided on the question of whether so unexpected and so huge an improvement in the matric pass rate is both believable and reliable.
President Jacob Zuma is emerging as an international statesman, which is paying dividends for the country.
India held on for a draw in the third and final Test against South Africa at Newlands on Thursday after both teams squandered chances of victory.
The national pass rate for last year’s matrics was 67,8%, a dramatic improvement on the 2009 pass rate of just 60,7%.
The matric class of 2010 have shrugged off setbacks from a month-long World Cup break and a teacher strike to record a rise in the national pass rate.
President Jacob Zuma makes the ANC’s annual January 8 statement at the Peter Mokaba Stadium on Saturday on the party’s 99th founding anniversary.
More than 275 000 Zimbabweans applied to the Department of Home Affairs to legalise their stay in South Africa.
The demand for electricity is set to increase by about 2% in 2011 as the country’s economy recovers, Eskom CEO Brian Dames said on Thursday.
Mpumalanga minister Madala Masuku condemned the killing of the Ehlanzeni district municipality chief whip, Madala Masuku on Thursday.
While the overall pass rate for matriculants had increased, the number of students who sat the mathematics paper and then passed, dropped in 2010.
The Emfuleni municipality in Gauteng and the Mpumalanga province issued flood warnings on Thursday after main rivers began overflowing.
The 2010 matric results showed the country was on the right track, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
A prominent cricket official was shot dead outside Sahara Park Newlands on Wednesday, the Western Province Cricket Association said.
Once again, China has scored points in Africa. Beijing wants South Africa to become the fifth member of the Bric countries.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has described the matric pass rate of 67,8% as a "significant achievement".
More than 67% of matrics passed last year’s exams — up from 60,7% in 2009, the basic education ministry announced in Pretoria on Thursday.
Floods in KwaZulu-Natal had claimed five lives by Wednesday as heavy rains continued to soak large parts of the country.
Stanlib’s Stephan Schalekamp explains when to use asset swaps and foreign domiciled investments.
The <i>M&G</i>’s <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> rounds up five odd things you may have missed this week.
Jacques Kallis grafted a brave unbeaten half-century to lift SA to 212-6 at tea on the fourth day of the third Test against India on Wednesday.
The ANC chief whip in the Ehlanzeni district municipality in Mpumalanga was killed in the Mhala district in the early hours of Wednesday.
More than 1 300 road deaths have been recorded since December 2010, the Road Traffic Management Corporation said on Wednesday.