The ANC on Thursday anointed new 800m world champion Caster Semenya as the nation’s ”golden girl” while condemning speculation on her gender.
Cape Town commuters tried to force they way into buses after trains ground to a halt in Mitchells Plain on Thursday morning, Western Cape police said.
The family of sprinter Caster Semenya says she is definitely a woman, despite questions raised about her gender, reports said on Thursday.
Mineworkers are set to down tools on Monday in protest against Impala Platinum’s refusal to budge on wage demands, NUM said on Thursday.
Swine flu has claimed its first victim in Gauteng, bringing to seven the number of deaths in SA, the NICD said on Thursday.
More than a million of the two million criminal cases reported annually in South Africa are never solved, the Mercury reported on Thursday.
The government plans new laws to improve the lives of the poor, but for squatter Ntombi Khumalo this may already be too late.
Ziggy Owei describes herself as “a living example” that entrepreneurship can be taught.
A race row has erupted at the South African National Biodiversity Institute, with allegations of mismanagement, racism and intimidation.
Cape Town’s disastrous N2 Gateway project began without a funded budget and was starved of agreed funding by the National Housing Department.
The opposition on Wednesday rejected attempts by President Jacob Zuma to defuse the row over his nomination of Judge Sandile Ngcobo as chief justice.
Taxi drivers and operators across the country will strike from September 1 over the implementation of the Bus Rapid Transit system.
A convicted murderer hung himself in a Ramsgate court holding cell on Wednesday shortly after receiving a double life sentence, police said.
Telkom and the Communication Workers’ Union on Wednesday signed a deal on a 7,5% pay rise and a two-year moratorium on forced retrenchments.
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille had hoped to have at least three other women in her cabinet, according to papers filed in the Equality Court.
Zuma on Wednesday welcomed a statement by the opposition that they would prefer Dikgang Moseneke to his nominee, Sandile Ngcobo, for chief justice.
Agreements driving a deeper partnership between SA and Angola will be concluded by Wednesday afternoon, said minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.
President Jacob Zuma has assured opposition parties he will take their views into account in deciding on the appointment of a new chief justice.
Four white police officials were offered a lucrative settlement before an important test case for affirmative action could be heard in court.
Former Constitutional Court judge Johann Kriegler has warned that judicial independence should not be sacrificed on the ”altar of transformation”.
At the age of 45, with two-year-old twins at home, John Gilmour resigned from his comfortable job as a private-school principal in Cape Town.
Nikiwe Bikitsha follows up on the responses received to her M&G column on single parenting two weeks ago.
Christina Scott reports on how South Africa and
Egypt are using supercomputers to avert disasters
Three opposition parties on Tuesday urged President Jacob Zuma to reconsider his nomination for chief justice.
The ANC has lodged a formal complaint with the press ombudsman about articles in the Sunday Times and the City Press.
The estate of Ponzi scheme fraud suspect Barry Tannenbaum was sequestrated on Tuesday in the high court in Johannesburg, attorney Ian Levitt said.
FW de Klerk warned President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday against changing the Constitution to enable the government to rein in the powers of the provinces.
Prisoners at the Johannesburg prison were denied healthcare services by striking correctional services officers on Tuesday, said a rights group.
South Africa does not depend exclusively on foreign technology, Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor said on Tuesday.
The Health Professions Council on Tuesday warned about an increase in people masquerading as medical practitioners.
The proposed NHI scheme will help resolve problems faced by medical aid members who were not getting value for their money, the ANC said on Tuesday.
The relationship between workers and Johannesburg Metro Police chief Chris Ngcobo has been irreparably damaged, a union said on Tuesday.