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.
At what time of the day are you supposed to practise lying on your back with an oversized parsnip in your salivating mouth?
SA Harmony Gold Mining, the world’s fifth-biggest gold producer, said production fell in its third quarter, without giving a reason.
The ANC was leading the race in eight of the nine provinces late on Thursday morning while the ruling party has also increased its lead over the DA.
The DA took an early lead in this year’s general election with the publication of the first results just before 11pm on Wednesday in Pretoria.
Although voting progressed smoothly throughout Wednesday in the Eastern Cape, political parties reported a few incidents of irregularities.
South Africa sets an exemplary standard for elections, observers to the elections told the Mail & Guardian Online on Wednesday evening.
A last-minute concession allowing people to vote at the polling station of their choice caused headaches in the Western Cape on Wednesday.
A presiding officer in Ulundi arrested for electoral fraud will appear at Empangeni Regional Court on Thursday.
The African National Congress on Wednesday called for the extension of voting hours in provinces where voter turnout had been especially high.
How does your vote get from your polling station to the massive electronic scoreboards at the IEC’s results centre in Pretoria?
Easy. Start with a few million voters, throw in a public holiday, add 55-million ballot papers and sprinkle the cocktail with two million paper clips.
Voter turnout in Gauteng has been so high that ballot boxes were too full, the provincial electoral commission said on Wednesday.
It is the calm before the storm at the Independent Electoral Commission results centre in Pretoria.
There were tears and ululations as former president Nelson Mandela stepped out of his car to vote in Johannesburg on Wednesday.