As the Eastern Cape’s education system falls apart learners are taking extreme measures to secure a decent education, writes Primarashni Gower.
Papers filed in a court case shed light on a bizarre spy war at PetroSA that involved a bug sweep by the National Intelligence Agency.
In urban terms architecture’s most complex and simultaneously most basic function is as the unit of urban strategy.
Jackie Kemp interviews Albie Sachs whose
mould-breaking judgments have drawn world attention.
Colleagues of the interim president of the Cope Youth Movement, Anele Mda, have accused her of lying to South Africans.
The Mountain Rise Police Station has some explaining to do after a scheme to manipulate statistics is uncovered, writes Sello S Alcock.
Despite a budget shortfall of as much as R60-billion, experts say everything is more or less under control.
The middle class is still bearing the brunt of Eskom’s pricing structure, but industries will also feel the pinch.
A plan to turn a historic Durban street market into a mall has sparked a public outcry.
Farmers and food analysts are in agreement: South Africa’s supermarket chains have too much power and are squeezing margins down through the chain.
Alleged political instability may require intervention at a higher level. Mmanaledi Mataboge reports .
The doctors’ strike flared up in Gauteng and Limpopo on Friday even as it was called off in most other provinces.
SA will support the IAEA newly appointed director general Yukiya Amano’s dedication to the elimination of nuclear weapons, Abdul Minty said on Friday.
Mandrax tablets valued close to R4-million were stolen from the storeroom of the police’s organised unit in Nelspruit, police said on Friday.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions on Friday backed a call by ANCYL president Julius Malema for mine nationalisation.
Western Cape doctors on Friday agreed to call off their strike and go back to work, but are still not happy with the government’s pay offer.
Resolution Recycling, the once-celebrated Johannesburg-based waste recycling company, this week announced that it had filed for liquidation.
South Africa promised on Friday to fix transport problems seen as one of the major concerns ahead of next year’s World Cup.
Workers at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) plan to strike next week in a dispute over wages.
A court on Friday heard arguments for an application to prevent a strike that could see work on World Cup stadiums grind to a halt.
KwaZulu-Natal doctors returned to work on Friday morning after downing tools for almost two weeks.
Icasa will ask the communications minister to review the time frame for the migration from analogue to digital television, officials said on Friday.
John Smit hopes Bakkies Botha was being victimised when he was hit by a two-week ban. Otherwise the game of rugby could be changing, he said.
The death toll in the Eastern Cape’s winter circumcision season has risen to 31, the provincial health department said on Friday.
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi needs to fire his DG and sit down with the profession to chart a healing course for our public health system.
A total of 277 workers died in SA mines in the past year, almost half of them in illegal operations, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu says.
With Telkom having held the country to ransom following its privatisation in 1997, government has taken a leaf out of <i>Terminator</i>.
Paul Ngobeni attacks Western Cape judge president John Hlophe in an about turn move by his staunchest defender.
A summit on the rising costs of fuel will be held by Energy Minister Dipuo Peters, her department said on Thursday.
Government has called on public service doctors to end their strike and return to work immediately.
South Africa’s greenhouse gas emissions per capita are similar to that of industrialised countries, the WWF said on Wednesday.
Ireland centre Brian O’Driscoll has slammed SA coach Peter de Villiers for defending Bok flanker Schalk Burger, who was banned for eye-gouging.