Consensus in the ruling tripartite alliance, the private sector and parts of the intelligentsia are building towards the need for a deal of some sort.
Alcohol-free public spaces and the idea of businesses not selling alcohol on payday were suggested at a conference as ways of reducing crime.
The Competition Tribunal will hear an urgent application by resources giant BHP Billiton on Thursday.
Parastatal Transnet has rejected a report that it has sold off a vast area of Table Bay, including a portion of Robben Island, to foreign investors.
Offices of Sars will stay open longer from Monday to accommodate the anticipated increase in employers wishing to submit their payroll records.
Beleaguered Springbok coach Peter de Villiers said on Monday he would take responsibility for his team’s poor results in the Tri-Nations competition.
The prevalence in HIV is showing signs of decreasing, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday.
Proposed action to force the National Prosecuting Authority to drop charges against Jacob Zuma will not get the backing of the police or its unions.
The trial of Cezanne Visser, also known as ”Advocate Barbie”, was postponed on Monday because her lawyer, Johann Engelbrecht, was in hospital.
The University of South Africa’s Durban campus is to remain closed until further notice following a student protest, the university said on Monday.
A shaft at Anglo Platinum’s second-biggest mine remained shut a week after a worker died, and the mine said it was in talks with authorities.
The scale of urbanisation in South Africa, which has seen millions move to informal settlements, was highlighted at a government briefing on Monday.
A total of 421 cases are pending in connection with xenophobia attacks countrywide, the Safety and Security Ministry said on Monday.
A skeleton was found in Zone 15 in Garankuwa on Sunday, the fourth in the area over the last three months, North West police said on Monday.
Failed property sales are growing as many buyers are unable to secure enough financing, bond originator ooba said on Monday.
A 68-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 13-year-old disabled daughter in Kwamhlanga, Mpumalanga police said on Monday.
Northam Platinum posted a 12% rise in full-year earnings on high metal prices, despite weaker output, and forecast rising output.
Mangosuthu University of Technology’s long serving vice-chancellor Professor Aaron Ndlovu had been told to take a leave of absence.
A new Indian cookbook has Sukasha Singh wondering just how incompetent an Indian woman she is.
Consumers will be shrinking from the pain of high interest rates for a year or so more.
Cape Town is short on authentic African eateries. Actually, there’s only one from the diaspora, the Ethiopian Addis in the Cape.
The new system is expected to bring benefits such as free extra channels as well as better quality, writes Lloyd Gedye.
Consensus in the ruling tripartite alliance, the private sector and parts of the intelligentsia are building towards the need for a deal of some sort.
Moroka Swallows outplayed Kaizer Chiefs for the opening 53 minutes of their MTN 8 semifinal, but then lost the impetus.
The Inkatha Freedom Party has thrown its weight behind Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s rejection of a merger proposal by the African National Congress.
Premier Soccer League champions SuperSport United coach Gavin Hunt believes his side will retain their Absa Premiership title this season.
The South African high commission in Uganda is applying for permission to visit two South Africans held in prison in that country.
President Thabo Mbeki has expressed his satisfaction with the upgrading of the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg for the Soccer World Cup.
IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Saturday he had approached Jacob Zuma to intervene in the deteriorating relations between the two parties.
A mini-tsunami has hit the Cape West Coast without prior warning, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Saturday.
Transnet secretly sold prime Cape Town coastal land and a vast sea area when it offloaded the V&A Waterfront for R7-billion to investors from London.
Nigeria and South Africa are the main emitters of greenhouse gases in Africa, accounting for almost 90% of the emissions in the continent.