The South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee on Thursday decided to increase the repo rate by 50 basis points to 12%.
A rebuke of President Robert Mugabe might not be enough to save Zimbabwe, but it could allow South Africa to salvage some national pride.
The city of Cape Town says it is to hold a workshop in a bid to find solutions to the city’s refugee crisis.
Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has made four changes to his team for the second Test against Six Nations champions Wales in Pretoria on Saturday.
Linda Mti, the chief security officer for the 2010 Soccer World Cup was acquitted on drunken-driving charges in the Hillbrow Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
South Africa’s Cabinet has approved the country’s nuclear policy, enabling the controversial technology to play a greater role in alleviating a critical power shortage.
At least 21 of the 62 people who died in the recent xenophobic violence were South African citizens, government communications head Themba Maseko said on Thursday.
The lawyer representing Cape Judge President John Hlophe on Thursday denied reports that Hlophe is to lodge a counter-complaint with the Judicial Service Commission.
There will be no tampering with the fuel levies to try to ease the pain of oil price increases, the Cabinet has decided.
Despite assurances that laws abolishing the Scorpions would be passed by Parliament by June, it looks as though the crime-fighting unit is going to have a few more months to live.
A Cape High Court judge will on Friday deliver his ruling on the Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) bid to shut down activities of vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath.
Attorneys for Cape Judge President John Hlophe will lodge a complaint with the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) against Constitutional Court judges, it was reported on Wednesday.
There’s welcome action around subscription TV. But as regards terrestrial digital television, don’t hold your breath.
South Africa is fully capable of ”turning the corner” and consolidating the gains made since 1994 despite the many challenges it faces, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Wednesday
The death toll after the Stellenbosch building collapse was revised to three on Wednesday, the town’s director of community safety said.
South Africa’s manufacturing-sector growth rebounded in April, official data showed on Wednesday, but business confidence dipped, pointing to tougher times ahead.
Oscar Pistorius said on Wednesday that he does not believe he has a chance of qualifying to run with able-bodied athletes in the 400m at the Beijing Olympics.
The cost of the electronic National Transport Information System (eNatis) increased from an initial R354-million to almost R600-million, the Department of Transport said on Wednesday.
Results of a safety audit of South African mines were ”worrying” because they showed a low level of safety compliance, a top mining official said on Wednesday.
The United Nations is not about to take any drastic steps to move refugees from xenophobic attacks to other countries, reports Imke van Hoorn.
The state will be able to play five audio recordings made at the scene of Judge Nkola John Motata’s car accident in January last year when his drunken-driving trial resumes next month.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation announced on Wednesday that it would launch a book in tribute to Madiba in his 90th year.
A number of civil-society organisations will form a coalition to address the problems that have beset the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), a statement issued on Wednesday said.
South Africa’s three major airports will be ready by 2010 for the thousands of Soccer World Cup visitors, the Airports Company of South Africa (Acsa) said on Tuesday.
As the sixth price rise of the year sent fuel heading towards R10 a litre this week — amid predictions it could reach R11 by year-end — there are few signs that South African motorists are making serious adjustments to the end of cheap fuel.
Bafana Bafana players will not use their recent poor away form as an excuse if they fail to beat minnows Sierra Leone in a crunch 2010 African Nations Cup qualifier in Freetown on Saturday night.
The government has identified at least 27 cases where a syndicate has swindled more than R199-million from government departments in four provinces over the past three years — using cyber-spyware.
South Africa must embrace private sector involvement in the electricity sector if it wants to solve a power crisis that threatens to derail its growing economy, a business group said on Tuesday.
Two years ahead of the opening match at the 2010 Soccer World Cup, organisers in South Africa are having to dig deeper into their pockets to match the soaring costs of constructing the tournament’s stadiums.
Four men have been arrested in Joubert Park in connection with the murder of actor Moto Silumo, Johannesburg police said on Tuesday.
A fifth construction worker has died of injuries he sustained when a Stellenbosch building collapsed during renovation work on Monday afternoon, the Department of Labour said.
Four people died and 13 were injured — two of them seriously — when a building collapsed in Stellenbosch on Monday afternoon, rescue workers said.