Bafana players were greeted with the disconcerting news on Wednesday that the team had plummeted to 85th in the Fifa world rankings.
The world financial crisis hardens the case for SA sticking to its economic policies, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Efforts to form a breakaway from the ANC are gaining momentum, but analysts say the new party still needs to recruit nationally recognised leaders.
Four metro cops may be in hot water for driving past rocks placed on the N1 highway where a Johannesburg man was ambushed and killed.
The rand is unlikely to stabilise in the next week or two, Kruger International economist Ulrich Joubert said on Wednesday after volatile trade.
The mining plan has drawn flak from environmentalists and social workers who believe it will cause damage to the environment and to the community.
Reviewing three novels by white male authors prompts Jane Rosenthal to re-examine the male protagonist in post-apartheid literature.
Alexia Christie and Trudie Broekmann of attorneys Webber Wentzel provide a guideline for both consumers and suppliers.
Lloyd Gedye and Lisa Skinner caught some international superstars in Gauteng last weekend.
So how does the Nissan NP200 compare, firstly with its predecessor, as well as with the other nominally half-tonne bakkies out there?
Johannesburg-based sociologist Yoon Jung Park examines the intriguing problem of Chinese identity in her book about being chinese in South Africa.
Lawrence Lemaoana’s new art offers a brave and satirical critique of the media and politics, writes Anthea Buys.
Let people be ashamed of their choice to not know, rather than their non-choice to be born homosexual or physically disabled or any shade of off-white.
The 51-year-old woman admitted to the Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital on Monday with symptoms of viral haemorrhagic fever has been discharged.
The Home Affairs Department has been threatened with legal action over an apparent refusal to renew asylum-seeker permits.
The South African Reserve Bank kicked off a two-day policy meeting on Wednesday to decide on interest rates, with the repo likely to remain unchanged.
The ANC has taken a magnanimous stance to threats by Mosiuoa Lekota to form his own party, but Jacob Zuma made it clear that patience is wearing thin.
Authorities have agreed to hold back on the closure of camps still housing xenophobia refugees in Cape Town, the Aids Law Project said on Wednesday.
The ANC will continue to ”engage” with former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota and other members who have grievances, the party said on Wednesday.
SA’s factory output growth slowed to 0,4% year-on-year in August and shrank 2,1% on a monthly basis, pointing to pressure from higher interest rates.
The fact that broad-based black economic empowerment might have only benefited a few is due to the nature of the SA economic system, said Jacob Zuma.
The rand recouped some of its losses against the dollar on Wednesday, while stocks also turned positive after a coordinated round of global rate cuts.
Mamelodi Sundowns were fined R100 000 — R60 000 suspend for 12 months — by the PSL on Tuesday night.
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.
Mbeki was quintessential ANC, an integral and very key member, an arch-propagandist who embodied and expressed its spirit of democratic centralism.
Leonie Joubert chats to former provincial environment minister Tasneem Essop after her sudden departure from politics
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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.