Our Minister of Education tends to come up with unscripted remarks that are by turns strangely provocative, out of the ball park or insightful.
National Intelligence Agency DG Manala Manzini has questioned why it took NPA head Vusi Pikoli months to hand over the Special Browse Mole Report.
Exports of R56,24-billion and imports of R57,90-billion in May resulted in a trade deficit of R1,66-billion, Sars said on Monday.
Two men stole R1-million from under the bed of a man in his home in Lambton near Germiston, east of Johannesburg, on the weekend.
South Africa’s further education and training college sector is growing but it will also take time to mature.
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has given Cape Judge President John Hlophe until Monday to respond to a Constitutional Court complaint.
Johannesburg metro police and the South African Municipal Workers’ Union on Monday signed an agreement on wages and wage scales for metro officers.
State-owned freight transport and logistics company Transnet is ready to move away from its turnaround strategy towards a growth strategy.
Minimum admission requirements for programmes to be set
South Africa’s rating system for researchers belongs to the past, but its administrators are reluctant to change, says Michael Cherry.
SA’s murder rate has decreased in the past year with 38,6 out of every 100 000 people murdered in the period, compared with 40,5 last year.
Universities of technology have the benefit of producing students who are ‘work-ready’ and have a tertiary education
We must face up to the difference between study for study’s sake and the vocational and practical training that South Africa desperately needs.
Universities of technology need to differentiate themselves from traditional universities, write Primarashni Gower and Cornia Pretorius.
Mauritius has rejected a request by ANC president Jacob Zuma to obtain documents used to convict Schabir Shaik, his former financial adviser.
Emergency services personnel were on Monday morning trying to remove bodies from a wrecked vehicle following an accident at the Xavier off-ramp.
South African stocks remained in the black at midday on Monday, thanks to firm resources stocks, which are benefiting from soaring metals prices.
The KwaZulu-Natal flood death toll rose to 16 on Monday after a decomposing body was found in the Umzinto River.
Leon de Kock looks back on a recent colloquium held at Wits University which focused on the role of publishers in non-fiction.
South Africa’s credit growth rose slightly to 19,74% year-on-year in May, slightly above forecasts, data showed on Monday.
South Africa has 85% of the world’s supply of a metal that is in ever-increasing demand
As provincial ANC chair, KwaZulu-Natal Finance MEC Zweli Mkhize feels his first challenge is to deliver a ”decisive” victory in next year’s election.
Kevin Kriedermann asks Cape Town Television’s Karen Thorne about the possibilities of an integrated community television station in the city
Entrepreneurs usually focus on their businesses and often, little time is spent on planning for retirement.
Planning for old age is crucial.
The carefully constructed unity of the African National Congress Youth League was showing cracks on Sunday at its congress in Johannesburg.
Maritzburg United secured promotion to the Premier League following a 2-0 second-leg win over FC AK at the Harry Gwala Stadium in Pietermaritzburg.
The deputy mayor of the Umkhambithini local municipality, Johnson Shlangu Mkhize, was shot and killed in Ngilanyoni on Saturday night.
A 32-year-old man wounded three people at a wedding ceremony before turning the gun on himself in Balfour, Mpumalanga.
ANC leader Jacob Zuma on Sunday laid down the law for the ANC Youth League at the organisation’s national congress in Johannesburg.
”What would you do if, for R2,6-million, you had to choose between God and Mugabe?” asks Afrikaans musician and author Koos Kombuis on his blog.
ANC Youth League conference runs behind schedule as NEC nominations are held up by a failure to reach consensus.
African National Youth League leader Julius Malema’s arch-rival helps Gwede Mantashe kill off the last efforts to challenge Malema’s authority.