Two well-known South African entertainers died and two other people were injured in an accident on Sunday on the N3 near Heidelberg, Johannesburg police said on Monday.
Organisers of Tuesday’s planned Million Man March in Pretoria hope criminals will get the message that the country is united against them, a spokesperson said on Monday.
Springbok coach Peter de Villiers said he expected Wales to bounce back from their first Test mauling by the South Africans and produce an improved performance in the second Test in Pretoria on Saturday.
A man who killed centenarian Herbert (Bob) Downs by stabbing him six times in Downs’ home in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal, was jailed for life by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday.
Bertrams, a run-down suburb adjacent to Ellis Park, has been set for a facelift from the day that South Africa was awarded the football World Cup.
Electricity authorities on Monday called for action to deal with a R25-billion maintenance backlog that could further stifle economic growth.
ANC MP Rose Sonto, also the head of the South African National Civic Organisation in the Western Cape, this week repeated unsubstantiated allegations that foreigners are buying government-subsidised houses and forcing South Africans to live in shacks.
A group of Khutsong pupils allegedly set a classroom and storeroom alight after dissatisfaction over the exam timetable, North West police said on Monday.
The banking industry will install new ATMs throughout the country despite recent bombings, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre said on Monday.
The Pretoria High Court on Monday sentenced Andrew Jordaan to life imprisonment for the murder of seven-year-old Sheldean Human.
State hospitals will deliver a better service if they are allowed to be run as independent entities, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Monday.
Food prices are expected to rise rapidly in the next year because farmers are planting less as input costs escalate.
The rising popularity of debit cards complements the traditional credit card market.
The fixed-line business faces challenges with increased competition and pricing pressures in its traditional high margin, predominantly retail markets, Telkom said on Monday.
President Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, leader of the ruling African National Congress, have denied that they are enemies and that Mbeki will step down early.
Vodacom chief executive officer Alan Knott-Craig said on Monday he would step down by the end of September.
South Africa’s power crisis poses a threat to economic growth and the government’s efforts to reduce unemployment and poverty, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Monday.
The South African under-17 team lost their first-ever match on artificial turf at home when Zimbabwe beat them 2-1 in an international friendly at the FNB Wadley Stadium in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday.
FNB has come to the market with an aggressive pricing package that provides free and unlimited electronic banking for R66 a month.
Headlines showing a 13,2% fall in house prices combined with 400% increases in the number of house repossessions are enough to send panic through the market. But these numbers are misleading, creating an uglier picture than is necessarily the case.
Credit card initiatives and product innovations — many related to pricing — are about to be spawned in the marketplace as a direct result of the challenges the National Credit Act (NCA) originally posed to the banking fraternity.
That Bruce Lyle and his built-from-scratch fertiliser business, Nutri-Flo, has survived its nine-year fight against Sasol with the competition authorities so far is remarkable.
About 8 000 members of the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) are to continue striking in Ekurhuleni on Monday, said the union.
Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change on Saturday insisted that its leader had sent a letter to President Thabo Mbeki asking him to step down as Zimbabwe mediator.
The Christian Science Monitor celebrates 100 years as a newspaper at its stall on the Cape Town Book Fair.
Heribert Adam reflects on anti-apartheid journalism and how ”multipliers of liberal opinion” such as journalist Gerald Shaw can inform and educate.
As the classic form of the elegy shows, memory can be especially potent when allowed to coalesce around the loss of a loved one.
Ronnie Govender’s autobiography shows he is a triple-threat man — in sports, the theatre and literature.
It is a brave new world that the third edition of the Cape Town Book Fair, subtitled <i>Words Create Worlds</i>, encounters from June 14.
Teenagers are notorious for giving their parents a hard time — so apparently are countries.
Could the cellphone novel be the next big thing in publishing?
There’s a growing volume of scholarship around South African music.