That the press is out of kilter with the voting preferences of the majority of South Africans is not a bad thing for democracy.
The <i> Mail & Guardian</i> learned recently that Jacob Zuma’s administration will expand national ministries from 28 to 32.
Kevin Davie goes in search of a mountain bike route through the northern Drakensberg.
Gauteng Health MEC Brian Hlongwa is too close to power and there are systemic problems with any attempt to cut graft, writes Ferial Haffajee.
Many politicians do not make use of our public healthcare system — clearly a vote of no confidence.
Two senior Mpumalanga education officials have been fired after the department lost more than R1-million, it said on Tuesday.
Metrobus unionists will stay away from work in Johannesburg again on Wednesday as their labour dispute has not been resolved, a shop steward said.
It will be a major disaster if Bafana Bafana do not reach the semifinals of the Confederations Cup, said Danny Jordaan on Tuesday.
Take a trip with the Mail &Guardian to Cosmo City, the future perfect of housing policy. Or is it?
Hosting the Confederations Cup and the Indian Premier League gives SA officials confidence the Soccer World Cup will be staged without problems.
The Gauteng Health Department is considering dismissing doctors who continued striking on Monday.
Beaten Nedbank Cup semi-finalists Ajax aim to pick up the pieces when they host Platinum Stars in a crunch Absa Premiership clash on Wednesday.
Johannesburg Metrobus said it would not operate on Tuesday because of a planned strike by its drivers.
Food prices at major supermarkets have increased an average of 5,5% since January, trade union Solidarity said on Sunday.
The long-awaited Soweto Derby between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates on Saturday has more at stake than pride.
Twenty20 was considered a spinners’ graveyard till a skilful band of slow bowlers changed it all with bewitching shows in the IPL in South Africa.
DA leader Helen Zille will step down as Cape Town mayor on Wednesday when she’s gazetted as a member of the Western Cape provincial legislature.
For the first time, blind South Africans have voted in secret, thanks to a new Braille ballot template.
Nkandla: already thankful, but also expectant that the ANC’s promise of a "better life for all" will resonate through these hills and valleys.
Party leaders gathered with IEC officials and the media at the results centre on Saturday afternoon in Pretoria where the results were announced.
In the final tally, the African National Congress dominates the National Assembly but misses its two-thirds majority by an inch.
Jacob Zuma’s election victory has been welcomed by ministers in Zimbabwe as intensifying pressure on President Robert Mugabe.
Zuma tapped into the mood of the poor black majority, but they too will turn against him if he fails to deliver.
The ANC looked in danger late on Friday of losing its grip on a two-thirds majority in this week’s elections that swept Jacob Zuma to power.
Many opposition parties were wiping the sand out of their eyes on Friday as ballot counting churned up the political landscape.
South Africa’s fourth democratic elections took place in a peaceful atmosphere, the SADC electoral observer mission said on Friday.
Cope has already won more than 20 seats in Parliament, according to early estimates, seemingly eating into the support base of its older rivals.
Fans of Nando’s can look forward to new humorous TV adverts while tucking into their chicken wings on Saturday night, it emerged on Friday.
The drunk driving case against high court judge Nkola Motata was postponed in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
When it announced that about 50 ANC MPs would cross to Cope, the ANC went into panic mode.
It has been a brutal campaign, stretching back to the ANC’s Mafikeng conference in 1997, but Jacob Zuma can’t spend too much time taking victory laps.
Johannesburg Central Prison’s soccer field was transformed into a polling station on Wednesday as up to a 1 000 inmates cast their votes.