About 25 000 Cosatu members started marching to Eskom’s offices in Johannesburg on Wednesday to protest against rising electricity and food prices.
Tens of thousands of workers downed tools in four provinces on Wednesday to voice their "disgust" with rising living costs.
Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool will resign with effect from Friday, African National Congress chairperson Baleka Mbete has announced.
The JSE remained firmer on Wednesday, as banks, financials and industrials found favour following a strong performance on Wall Street overnight.
Gary Ralfe, one of the faces most often associated with diamond mining giant De Beers, on Wednesday announced his retirement.
Johannesburg commuters were left stranded as Cosatu prepared for a one-day stayaway and protest march on Wednesday.
A gang of armed men shot a security guard in the face and kidnapped another guard and his dog after blowing up two ATMs in Tshwane on Wednesday.
Premier Soccer League clubs are reluctant to release players from pre-season preparations, but Moroka Swallows have come to Bafana Bafana’s rescue.
The DA’s Helen Zille says the ANC is divided — as the National Party once was — between verligtes and verkramptes.
Diamond mining giant De Beers on Wednesday reported a 10% rise in total sales to $3,74-billion for the half-year ended June.
Business Day has been ordered to pay the costs of a National Intelligence Agency application to block publication of a sensitive document.
There are more than 300 small-vessel launch sites and slipways around South Africa’s coastline that are not monitored by police.
Criminal elements were behind the fire that broke out at Kruger Park flats in the Pretoria CBD on Tuesday, Tshwane mayor Gwen Ramokgopa said.
Three men have been arrested in possession of dagga at the Jose Pearson tuberculosis (TB) hospital in Port Elizabeth.
The ANC will announce a successor to embattled Eastern Cape Premier Nosimo Balindlela as soon as she returns from China, media reports say.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is full of praise for Orlando Pirates after his Red Devils managed a 1-0 win over a second-string Bucs.
Report reveals Wits University’s graduation rates for 2004 were well below the national benchmark for higher education.
The Public Investment Corporation has supplied the money for two of the biggest disinvestments from South Africa since the apartheid era.
The cure for the high oil price is the high oil price, writes Maya Fisher-French
Residents of two flat complexes in Pretoria obtained an urgent interdict on Tuesday to stop their eviction following a day of violence and death.
A planned Cosatu protest march through the Johannesburg CBD on Wednesday is set to disrupt traffic and public transport.
Congress of South African Trade Unions general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has expressed regret over his recent ”shoot and kill for Zuma” comments.
A showdown seems to be looming between Parliament’s sport and recreation committee and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee.
The number of South Africans who give emigration as the reason for selling their home has shot up in recent months.
JCI and Randgold & Exploration sign a memorandum of understanding to conclude a settlement agreement in place of the merger of the two companies.
Trucks were taking foreigners from the Glenanda refugee camp in Johannesburg to deportation centres on Tuesday afternoon.
The principle of competition is one of the key reasons that America’s system of higher education is the best in the world.
Kgalema Motlanthe, appointed by President Thabo Mbeki to Cabinet last week, attended his first meeting of the executive on Tuesday.
South Africa is embarking on a programme to increase its PhD output. This strategy is an important effort to boost the entire educational system.
Six people have died in a fire that broke out in the Kruger Park flats in Pretoria. The fire was allegedly started to protest against evictions.
The Scorpions have raided and searched a property of Dimitro Paparas, who is the co-accused of businessman Glenn Agliotti in a drug-dealing case.
Academics will now receive funding based on their rating, writes Primarashni Gower.