The marketing campaign for the sci-fi movie <i>District 9</i>, set in South Africa and opening here, was planned before the movie was even filmed.
Chief Justice Pius Langa retains the moral high ground when dealing with sensitive issues, writes Sello S Alcock.
The Land Bank has lost R16,5-million through fruitless and wasteful expenditure in the last financial year, the Democratic Alliance said on Friday.
The time is ripe for a public debate on the rights and responsibilities of people who turn to the state for medical care, DA leader Helen Zille says.
Newly appointed national police chief Bheki Cele will have to wait a few more days to hear the outcome of his court bid against IFP leaders.
A nationwide taxi industry strike will go ahead on September 1 when the BRT system is implemented, the National Taxi Council said on Friday.
SA President Jacob Zuma made an emotional pilgrimage on Friday to a former anti-apartheid guerrilla camp in Angola.
Paper company Sappi has failed to improve worker conditions and implement ”satisfactory” training plans for its workers, Ceppwawu said on Friday.
The DA has called on government to break the ”stranglehold” it says Sadtu has on public school education.
SA’s targeted consumer inflation is likely to have slowed further in July on easing food prices and depressed local demand, a Reuters survey showed.
A microbicide study involving 11 000 women from six African countries will present its results in November.
Eighty-eight correctional services officials have been suspended following industrial action, the department said on Friday.
In a time of recession, countries have less choice about the foreign states with which they build partnerships.
Regional powerhouse South Africa is lagging behind the global recovery, though analysts say the end may be in sight.
Bharti Airtel is not looking to sweeten its offer to buy a stake in MTN, the Indian firm’s head said, even as MTN said it wants a better price.
John Hlophe’s lawyer lashed out at Johann Kriegler on Friday, calling him an ”old man” who has made ”disturbing comments” about his client.
The <em>Mail & Guardian</em> spoke to Swiss choreographer Nicole Seiler on the telephone while she was driving in the vicinity of Bloemfontein.
Concourt judges recommend that Western Cape judge president should be cross-examined.
South Africa is drumming up business deals in Angola despite a record of recent abuses there.
Cope’s interim president allegedly made ‘surprise visits’ to the party’s provinces to oust opponents.
The ANC’s biggest province, the Eastern Cape, will be the first to elect new provincial leaders since the 2007 Polokwane conference.
President Jacob Zuma signed on Thursday an oil agreement with his Angolan counterpart during a visit aimed at strengthening economic ties.
An <em>M&G</em> probe raises questions about Western Cape police commissioner Mzwandile Petros’s version of events in an urban terror case.
Angola’s president hailed a visit by Jacob Zuma on Thursday as the start of a new era to improve the once strained relationship between the countries.
The gender controversy surrounding 800m world champion Caster Semenya has been humiliating for her, the SA athletics chief said on Thursday.
South Africa’s police will be transformed into a well-oiled machine that will send criminals fleeing, the new police chief said on Thursday.
Swine flu in South Africa has claimed its eighth victim, an Eastern Cape woman, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Thursday.
Affirmative action will be in the dock in November when Solidarity brings a challenge in the labour court over the police’s promotions policy.
President Jacob Zuma on Thursday called for strengthening economic ties with Angola, as he led a major business delegation to Luanda.
SA unions and political groups have criticised the IAAF following controversy around athlete Caster Semenya’s gender verification test.
An examination to verify the gender of champion sprinter Caster Semenya would involve multiple tests, a sports medicine doctor said on Thursday.
A train driver strike went into its fourth day on Thursday with no end in sight to a wage deadlock.