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/ 3 February 2009
After six months in the Western Cape premier’s office, Lynne Brown has still not made herself too comfortable behind the big desk.
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/ 3 February 2009
Consider how radically an understanding of the heavens has changed; how we view ourselves and our place in the universe.
Cut out the excess and stick to the essentials for 2009. What a budget really means is spending less than you earn and saving the balance.
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/ 2 February 2009
The legal battle over payment of outstanding bus subsidies to Gauteng bus operators continued in the Pretoria High Court on Monday.
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/ 2 February 2009
New vehicle sales for January were the worst in the past eight years, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of SA said on Tuesday.
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/ 2 February 2009
Government’s social relief of distress assistance is only for the ”poorest of the poor”, Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya said on Monday.
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/ 2 February 2009
A report of an audit on 355 mines across South Africa on Monday revealed that mine safety was below target at just 66%.
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/ 2 February 2009
A witness called to testify in the Lucky Dube murder trial in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday said she did not recognise the accused.
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/ 2 February 2009
The next Monetary Policy Committee meeting will hopefully see some extra relief afforded to consumers in terms of a further drop in the repo rate.
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/ 2 February 2009
About 160 commuters, including a pregnant woman, were injured when two Jo’burg-bound Metrorail passenger trains collided with each other on Monday.
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/ 2 February 2009
The case against Durban businessman Prince Sifiso Zulu was remanded to the end of February as he had engaged a new legal representative.
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/ 2 February 2009
A car carrying members of the VIP protection unit allegedly hit and killed a pedestrian in Ulundi, northern Zululand, on Sunday morning, police said.
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/ 2 February 2009
The ANC has denounced incidents of political violence which left several of their members injured after they were shot at and pelted with stones.
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/ 2 February 2009
South Africa’s cholera crisis has nothing to do with Zimbabweans or cross-border contamination.
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/ 2 February 2009
There’s finally good news on the inflation front, with more expected next month, writes Maya Fisher-French.
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/ 2 February 2009
Plans are afoot to launch a trade union movement, which will have strong links with the Congress of the People.
In an ideal world it might be bliss to spend a week each month alone. But real-life commitments take no heed of 28-day cycles.
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/ 1 February 2009
Political parties jockeyed for position this weekend with Azapo launching its manifesto and the ANC and DA setting out their plans for the country.
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/ 1 February 2009
More than a thousand fans gathered at the OR Tambo airport on Saturday night to welcome home the Proteas after their triumphant tour of Australia.
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/ 1 February 2009
Smooth and elegant with a medley of tastes as diverse as the terroir which yields it, South Africa’s wine industry has proved it ages well.
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/ 1 February 2009
ANC and Cosatu civil servants are being redeployed to campaign at taxpayers’ expense.
Judge President John Hlophe has returned to
work, stirring controversy and speculation, write
Nic Dawes and Sello S Alcock.
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/ 1 February 2009
The call is part of a growing demand by Palestinian sympathisers to investigate the role of South African Jews in the IDF.
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/ 31 January 2009
The financial deficit experienced by the Gauteng transport department resulted from a shortfall in the funds it receives from the national government.
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/ 31 January 2009
NirenTolsi speaks to the director of Rough Aunties, and the aunties themselves, about the documentary that scooped a Sundance Award.
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/ 31 January 2009
The implication is that voters still prefer the ANC, despite councillors having rejected the party.
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/ 31 January 2009
Jo’burg’s new rapid transit bus system is set to go despite some opposition, writes Lynley Donnelly.
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/ 31 January 2009
The leading candidate to take over as national public prosecutions director has admitted some of his shady deals.
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/ 31 January 2009
South African fashion label Stoned Cherrie will take to the fabled tents of Bryant Park for New York’s autumn/winter fashion week next month.
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/ 30 January 2009
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour was on Friday ordered to furnish a report on the death of an inmate to the Treatment Action Campaign.
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/ 30 January 2009
The president’s decision to enact legislation disbanding the Scorpions marks a dark day in South Africa’s democracy, the opposition said on Friday.
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/ 30 January 2009
When Barack Obama was voted into office in November, he celebrated the cork-popping moment with half a case of Graham Beck Brut NV.