The government on Thursday night increased its housing allowance offer to public servants, but would not budge on its 7% salary offer.
President’s son and deputy president’s girlfriend hit the jackpot in ArcelorMittal empowerment deal.
The government risks giving SA the same reputation as the war-torn DRC when it comes to mining investments, legal expert Peter Leon warned this week.
ArcelorMittal SA appears to have found a political solution to its commercial problems by announcing two deals involving controversial ICT.
This week’s teacher action highlights the disparities in South African society.
There are few South African films that have been as daring in their choice of narrative style as Oliver Hermanus’s <i>Shirley Adams</i>.
Uncertainty shrouds the cause of death of four men — allegedly illegal miners — whose bodies were found on Thursday in an underground in a mine.
Its pillars are access to information, freedom of expression, accountability and the rule of law, according to <b>Mamphela Ramphele</b>.
A competition watchdog has proposed fining Sasol 10% of its turnover for charging excessive prices for polypropylene and propylene.
A recent count showed theANC had more than 820 000 members — and many of them Afrikaners, officials said on Thursday.
The SA Students Congress (Sasco) has called for the immediate resignation of vice chancellor of the University of the Free State, Jonathan Jansen.
AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s third-largest and Africa’s top gold miner, on Thursday posted better-than-than expected second-quarter earnings.
In the face of climate change, an alternate strategy for reducing emissions could be to build a responsible food culture.
Teko Modise’s spot in the Bafana Bafana pecking order appears to be dropping.
Standard Bank reported a 9% rise in first-half profit on Thursday, helped by a decline in bad debts, but remained cautious due to the slow recovery.
Public-sector unions and the government were scheduled to meet for another round of wage talks in Pretoria on Thursday evening, an official said.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has essentially exonerated Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda of wrongdoing in two reports.
Media houses need to be regulated as they tend to go overboard at times, President Jacob Zuma said in defending a proposed media tribunal.
New Bafana coach Pitso Mosimane began his reign with a 1-0 victory over World Cup quarterfinalists Ghana at Soccer City on Wednesday night.
At the end of a long, hot valley somewhere inland from Elands Bay on the Cape West Coast, one can find vines that are among the oldest in the country.
Taiwanese ceremony no storm in a teacup, as multiple infusions draw out complex flavours.
Pinch me, somebody! Are the unprecedented protests by newspaper editors unnecessary hysteria? Is the press watchdog crying wolf?
He was the Butcher of Bisho. Brigadier Oupa Gqozo earned that ugly epithet after his troops opened fire on a group of protesters in 1992, killing 29.
A court has ruled in favour of letting FNB keep the naming rights to the football stadium where the opening match of the Soccer World Cup was played.
On Wednesday, Brett Kebble’s housekeeper, Andrew Minnaar, gave a court some insight into Kebble’s state of mind in the days before his death.
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and renowned playwright Ariel Dorfman chat to Greg Homann about speaking truth to power.
Unions representing more than one million civil servants and the government plan wage talks on Thursday, hours before a union deadline.
Teachers embarking on strike action has a damaging impact on education, writes <b>Graeme Bloch</b>.
Police chief Bheki Cele did not oppose a call for the ICD to investigate the treatment of the <i>Sunday Times</i> journalist arrested last week.
Thousands of public servants flanked by police officers marched to the Union buildings in Pretoria on Tuesday.
The ANC on Tuesday insisted that it did not want to curtail press freedom with a proposed media appeals tribunal.
Public-sector unions representing more than a million workers staged a one-day strike on Tuesday, threatening an extended labour stoppage this week.