No image available
/ 4 February 2009
Khutsong residents may have to vote in North West if Parliament doesn’t finalise in time legislation facilitating the township’s relocation.
No image available
/ 4 February 2009
A witness wanted to give police information on the murder of Lucky Dube but was warned that she could be killed, a court heard on Wednesday.
No image available
/ 4 February 2009
Moroka Swallows will have their credentials as championship contenders examined when they face Kaizer Chiefs in an Absa Premiership clash on Saturday.
No image available
/ 4 February 2009
The African National Congress on Wednesday confirmed that it would join Jacob Zuma in his legal battle as friends of the court.
No image available
/ 4 February 2009
Researchers say it’s high time that political parties begin to better understand the next generation.
The housing market will start recovering gradually in the second half of this year, Absa’s latest House Price Index released on Wednesday showed.
On a rain-interrupted programme at the SA Open on Tuesday, SA’s Kevin Anderson went down 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 in the first round against Ivo Minar.
At the M&G and Xstrata’s recent Critical Thinking Forum on youth politics, it was the crowd — as much as the panel — that stole the show.
The youth will get a whole new government agency this year. But will it be just more of the same, asks Mandy Rossouw.
ANC presidential candidate Jacob Zuma will emerge from the forthcoming election with a criminal prosecution hanging over his head.
The president must launch an urgent inquiry into alleged corruption within the Correctional Services Department, said the IFP on Wednesday.
New research indicates that a record 3 000 tons of abalone was poached from South African waters and sold in Asia last year.
Put a group of Johannesburg youths on Constitution Hill each Saturday to talk about democracy and the conversation goes large.
South Africans should stop the hypocrisy and start engaging one another honestly about what kind of society we want.
Judgement in an urgent application to declare unconstitutional certain laws excluding South Africans abroad from voting will be given on Monday.
Around 150 guests including government and media set off from Midrand on Tuesday on the first trip aboard the rapid-moving Gautrain.
The ANC is keeping some of its leaders from serving in Parliament to strengthen the party’s headquarters, secretary general Gwede Mantashe said.
Deputy Foreign Minister Fatima Hajaig on Tuesday apologised for any pain caused by alleged anti-Semitic remarks she made at a rally a few weeks ago.
The Constitutional Court has received the full set of papers required for ANC president Jacob Zuma’s application, a court official said on Tuesday.
The National Union of Mineworkers on Tuesday said the Presidential Mine Safety Audit report released this week contained "extremely worrying trends".
Durban dock workers are expected to refuse to offload an Israeli ship as part of a week of action against Israel, Cosatu said on Tuesday.
/ 3 February 2009
Back to campus
Mandy Rossouw talked to the heads of the student representative councils at some of our major universities to find out what’s on their agenda.
A Durban man described by his co-accused as the ”Son of God” on Tuesday made another application for bail in the Pinetown Regional Court.
An attempt to get the arms deal inquiry reopened is to be made in Wednesday’s meeting of the standing committee on public accounts in Parliament.
In the past politicians would go after voters with rah-rah rallies and door-to-door campaigns, but not anymore…
The ANC believes it is too early to contemplate sending the army into KZN, where there are renewed hostilities between the ruling party and the IFP.
Signal failure is the likely cause behind the two train crashes on Monday, Railway Safety Regulator spokesperson Kwazi Kwaza said on Tuesday.
A witness in the Lucky Dube murder trial identified one of the accused as having asked him to fix a green Polo, the Jo’burg High Court heard.
The ANC on Tuesday lodged a complaint with the IEC about violence in Nongoma, which the party claimed was perpetrated by IFP supporters.
The Constitutional Court rejected the electronic filing of Zuma’s latest court appeal and is still waiting for a hard copy version, an official said.
Students were left in the dark about their academic future as strike action at the Tshwane University of Technology campus continued on Monday.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe on Tuesday laid the blame for violence in northern KwaZulu-Natal at the feet of the Inkatha Freedom Party.