Vodacom has agreed to buy most of African network and satellite services firm Gateway for an enterprise value of ,1-billion.
John Block was re-elected as the Northern Cape’s ANC leader on Friday at the party’s provincial conference at Moshaweng, north of Kuruman.
October 20 2007 is beginning to seem a distant memory. The aura of invincibility that the Boks earned 10 months ago have been replaced by boos.
The ANC national executive committee (NEC) has asked the party’s president, Jacob Zuma, to rein in Youth League president Julius Malema.
Football fans visiting South Africa for the Soccer World Cup could be excused if they take the country’s drunk driving laws with a pinch of salt.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> strongly disagrees with Kgalema Motlanthe’s rather feeble reasons for wanting the Scorpions disbanded.
Leading legal professionals have dismissed suggestions that the Constitutional Court is in disarray and that it suffers from poor leadership.
The energy market should be privatised and deregulated for the electricity crisis in SA to be solved, the Free Market Foundation suggests.
The new Municipal Property Rates Act has resulted in chaos in the city of Johannesburg, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday.
It was time to organise South Africans for another struggle, this time against crime, businessman Cyril Ramaphosa said in Midrand on Thursday.
International lottery scams are claiming that people are winning hundreds of thousands of euros and dollars.
Gambling in Sun International’s casinos appears to have weathered a downturn in the economy.
Avusa CEO Prakash Desai has been elected president of Print Media South Africa, the body representing newspaper and magazine publishers.
Jozi is a dangerous city indeed, where cunning criminals now plant tracking devices in their victims’ cars — or do they?
Crime and violence remain obstacles in the way of rectifying the socio-economic climate, a convention on safety has found.
A Pretoria NG Kerk unfairly discriminated against gay music teacher Johan Strydom when it fired him three years ago, a court ruled on Thursday.
Two Durban siblings accused of murdering their parents made an impassioned plea on Thursday for donations to fund their defence.
Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has made two changes to his side for Saturday’s Tri-Nations Test against Australia in Johannesburg.
Reforming tax administration is crucial to addressing poverty and achieving acceptable health services, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel says.
Hundreds of commuters were left stranded on Thursday as taxi drivers on the routes between Johannesburg and Pretoria went on strike, police said.
The July producer price index (PPI) figure showed that inflationary pressures were still very much alive, Standard Chartered Bank said on Thursday.
SA’s jobless rate was at 23,1% of the labour force in the second quarter of 2008, from 23,5% in the first quarter, a labour report showed on Thursday.
Opposition parties have taken the battle over Durban’s controversial street-renaming process to the courts, the Mercury reported on Thursday.
Leaders of the ANC are trying to fix its image ahead of the 2009 elections, but it is battling to speak with one voice, analysts say.
The BHP Billiton hearing at the Competition Commission, scheduled to begin on Thursday, has been cancelled, a statement said on Wednesday.
Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats), the world’s number-two platinum producer, on Thursday posted a 57% rise in headline earnings per share to R20,65.
SA cement producer PPC will sell a 15% stake worth R2,7-billion to black investors to meet government requirements on black ownership, it says.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest cellphone operator, MTN, posted a 26% rise in first-half adjusted headline earnings per share.
Maritzburg United earned themselves a point on their return to the Absa Premiership on Wednesday night, thanks to a 1-1 draw against Ajax Cape Town.
Wits coach Roger De Sa is happy with the way his side played in beating Santos 2-0 in the opening fixture of the Absa Premiership.
Outgoing Northern Cape ANC chairperson John Block has apologised for the behaviour of some party members in the run-up to a provincial conference.
Experts have slammed what they called SA’s lack of a migration policy on Africans, saying it is a major reason for the recent anti-immigrant violence.