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.
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.
A race row has erupted at the South African National Biodiversity Institute, with allegations of mismanagement, racism and intimidation.
Ziggy Owei describes herself as “a living example” that entrepreneurship can be taught.
Cape Town’s disastrous N2 Gateway project began without a funded budget and was starved of agreed funding by the National Housing Department.