Voter support for the Congress of the People could have fallen to between 6% and 8%, suggest surveys conducted by pollster Markinor and the DA.
Jacob Zuma came down from on high like a descending messiah through the clouds. Below his helicopter, thousands of eager faces strained upwards.
Key questions ignited by Schabir Shaik’s medical parole are still unanswered.
He sings, dances and says things that cause people to cringe. Yet Jacob Zuma is, arguably, the most popular SA politician since Nelson Mandela.
It is simply not good enough for Ngconde Balfour to bluster that he has applied his mind, and show us all his familiar middle finger.
Fraud convict Schabir Shaik’s case is one of ”parole for pals”, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille said on Thursday.
Police were on Thursday deployed to KwaZulu-Natal’s Ntabamhlophe area to monitor serious tensions between IFP and ANC supporters.
Proteas captain Graeme Smith said on Thursday his team would put video analysis to good use when they try to level the series against Australia.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is not insolvent, its acting group chief executive, Gab Mampone, said on Thursday.
The ”myth” that the Eastern Cape is now a Cope stronghold was debunked by the by-election results, the ANC said on Thursday.
South Africans will have a new passport — with undisclosed security features built into it — next month.
South Africa is confident it can overcome structural and financial challenges to balance a power shortage with climate concerns.
No one disputes that public interest was well served by exposing the private life of Carl Niehaus.
The NPA and lawyers for suspended police chief Jackie Selebi have their hands full with two more legal issues as his April 14 trial approaches.
Standard Bank reported a 1,9% dip in annual headline earnings per share in line with its own forecast and declined to give a firm 2009 outlook.
South African financial services firm Sanlam expects 2009 to be challenging after it posted a 59% drop in headline earnings per share on Thursday.
The Happy People were smiling again as Orlando Pirates scored their best win of the season on Wednesday night.
The dust has barely settled following the first Test, and already a thriller is expected when the Proteas and Australia lock horns in the second Test.
The ANC and the IFP have reached an agreement to hold political rallies in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, over the weekend, it was reported on Thursday.
The African National Congress on Wednesday denied distributing fake Democratic Alliance pamphlets in Mpumalanga.
There is no struggle among the leadership of Cope, newly appointed presidential candidate Mvume Dandala says.
There is no doubt that, although I’ve never heard my mom actually say the word ”sex” out loud, it was forbidden.
The OIA wants to know why certain ‘explicit’ films have been rated as pornographic and others as artistic, writes Shaun de Waal.
Darwin showed how natural forces explain the origins of life. This was not a world that needed a divine sculptor.
ARV shortages are compounded by the increase in people needing treatment.
Shaun de Waal looks at three photographic books that illuminate our history and raise some intriguing questions about the present.
A refreshing change from many recording artists who figure fame places them not merely in another world, but in another time zone too.
Has Mandla Langa found the grail of the grand South African novel? Percy Zvomuya investigates.
On the eve of his 70th birthday, Hugh Masekela is blunt about ‘death of the arts’ and challenges facing South Africa, writes Percy Zvomuya.
Judges worked late into the night after intense argument by lawyers fighting over whether all South Africans living abroad should be allowed to vote.
President Kgalema Motlanthe has formally laid a complaint with the press ombudsman, his spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Cabinet is concerned that South Africans are not buying tickets for the 2010 Soccer World Cup and Confederations Cup, a spokesperson said on Wednesday