Former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota on Wednesday served “divorce papers” on the African National Congress.
South Africa’s former defence minister, Mosiuoa Lekota, and other ANC officials are expected to announce the formation of a breakaway party.
If a new political party was formed through a split in the African National Congress, it would probably not have a long life span, said Jacob Zuma.
Ordinary South Africans offer suggestions on what would bring about change in the country.
Artist Gerhard Marx has won his battle against BMW SA over the company’s use, in an advertising campaign, of road-map fragments pioneered in his work.
Leonie Joubert chats to former provincial environment minister Tasneem Essop after her sudden departure from politics
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Mbeki was quintessential ANC, an integral and very key member, an arch-propagandist who embodied and expressed its spirit of democratic centralism.
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) has condemned the racism of University of North West students in Facebook group.
The African National Congress has lost a ”tireless political activist” with the death of stalwart Esther Barsel, it said on Tuesday.
About 200 people have looted shops owned by Somalis in Jeffreys Bay, following the alleged rape of a four-year-old girl, police said on Tuesday.
A hundred and twenty people are now under observation after coming into contact with the three people who died from suspected haemorrhagic fever.
Most South Africans were still in the equivalent of the biblical wilderness, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said on Tuesday.
Newly elected Gauteng Premier Paul Mashatile talked tough on crime in his first address to the provincial legislature on Tuesday.
SA’s business confidence index fell to a new five-year low of 89,9 in September as a global credit crisis dampened sentiment.
The trial of Cezanne Visser, also known as ”Advocate Barbie”, was postponed until February next year in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday.
A 51-year-old woman has been admitted to the Chris-Hani Baragwanath Hospital with symptoms of a killer disease, suspected to be haemorrhagic fever.
The Gauteng provincial legislature on Tuesday elected ANC provincial chairperson Paul Mashatile as its new premier.
SA have dropped fast bowlers Makhaya Ntini and Andre Nel from the one-day squad to play Kenya and Bangladesh later this month.
Two family members of the nurse who died of a viral disease have been put into isolation as a precautionary measure.
South African IT holding firm Allied Electronics reported a 12% rise in first-half headline earnings per share on Tuesday.
A Dubai-based real-estate company said this week it plans to build a multibillion-dollar themed entertainment development in South Africa.
Veteran goalkeeper Brian Baloyi received a recall to the Bafana Bafana squad for the first time in more than three years on Monday.
The Gauteng provincial legislature is set to elect ANC chairperson in the province Paul Mashatile as its new premier on Tuesday.
Newly appointed Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Enver Surty warned on Monday against eroding the integrity of the judiciary.
But Parliament has not been informed of the exports as required, writes Clive Rubin.
Is BEE going the same way as the RDP and a number of other post-1994 policy acronyms?
Millions of cellphones are lost and discarded every year, yet their owners give little thought to the sensitive data they contain. Pete Warren reports
News that a development planned for the Sea Point promenade has stalled strengthens calls for preserving public spaces.
The political rupture in South Africa is being presented in the outside world as the personal tragedy and humiliation of one man, Thabo Mbeki.
One of the 12 accused in the Jeppestown robbery shoot-out trial has admitted to his involvement in the crime, the SABC reported on Monday.
The nature of the deadly disease that has claimed the lives of at least three people in Johannesburg remained a mystery on Monday.
The investigation into the plane crash of Samora Machel should be re-opened, says former apartheid-era foreign affairs minister Pik Botha.