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.
New Bafana Bafana coach Joel Santana is starting to weave his magic after his charges demolished Equatorial Guinea 4-1.
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour questioned escapee Annanias Mathe at the Pretoria prison on Saturday to learn more about the circumstances of Mathe’s latest attempt to escape.
The wide-eyed lion cub inched slowly to the edge of the wooden crate. He stared around him, then with a growl from the older cub behind him, he leapt out onto the grass.
It was just a farm, but what went on there was extraordinary: Nelson Mandela, disguised in blue overalls, plotting with other anti-apartheid leaders against South Africa’s racist regime.
Bafana Bafana set their 2010 African Nations Cup qualifying campaign back on track with a stunning 4-1 win over Equatorial Guinea.
World champions South Africa beat off-colour Six Nations winners Wales 43-17 in the first Test in Bloemfontein on Saturday to hand Springboks coach Peter de Villiers a winning start.
The Johannesburg High Court on Friday dismissed with costs an application to halt Vodacom’s R7,5-billion BEE deal.
Ten armed robbers tried and failed to break into a van delivering money to a supermarket in Mabopane, Pretoria police said on Saturday.
A recently paroled 35-year-old man was arrested in Durban for allegedly pimping children as young as eight, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Friday.
American comedian Chris Rock found time to drop in on unsuspecting comedy fans at a Johannesburg restaurant on Sunday night.
The South African credit card industry is bracing itself for a new round of innovation and competition.
The University of the Free State (UFS) has appointed a Cape Town-based leadership agency to help with its residence integration policy.
Last year’s bitter public sector strike lives on in the unexpected multibillion-rand increase in the civil service pay bill announced this week.
A pest control operator has been found to be spraying an extremely harmful pesticide at a primary school in Groblersdal, Limpopo.
The ANC Youth League faces yet another crisis after five of its provincial structures rejected Luthuli House’s endorsement of its controversially elected top five officials.
Ordinary citizens in KwaZulu-Natal who are growing increasingly tired of blue-light bullying on roads by politicians and other Ridiculously (self-) Important People appear to be taking matters into their own hands.
The Judicial Services Commission (JSC) will only meet in a month’s time to decide whether there is a prima facie case against Cape Judge President John Hlophe.