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.
The Japanese philosophy kaizen (improvement) epitomises Wesbank’s decision to reduce consumption and promote efficiency in the workplace.
Annanias Mathe, one the country’s most notorious criminals, has tried to escape from prison again.
Members of the South African National Defence Force Union on Friday called for Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota to step down.
There is a strong level of understanding among African leaders on the need for stable democratic systems, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
There was no reason for Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown to remain in a private clinic for treatment after he was allegedly sexually assaulted in a prison vehicle, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard on Friday.
The University of the Free State (UFS) has handed a private company a R4-million contract to help integrate its hostels.
The past couple of weeks have confirmed the truly risky nature of our constitutional journey, begun more than a decade ago.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Friday urged President Thabo Mbeki to ”speak out” on Zimbabwe before it was too late.
South Africa’s rural doctors have been thrust into the spotlight by the cases of Colin Pfaff, who sourced funding for antiretroviral drugs for pregnant women when the politicians failed to do so.
The slow pace of regional integration and poor infrastructure are hampering trade between countries in Africa, delegates at a World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting said on Friday.
The fifth anniversary of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> Greening the Future Awards was celebrated at a black-tie event in Johannesburg on June 5.
In 2007, Woolworths removed hydrogenated vegetable oils and 31,6 tonnes of salt from its recipes.
Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils’s own ministerial review commission on intelligence has delivered a sharp critique of the ministry’s new draft Protection of Information Bill.
Even as a seasoned "greenie" with an eye on recycling initiatives, I didn’t realise you could recycle Tetra Pak cartons.
The Out of the Box Environmental Education Programme has learners and teachers across the country literally thinking outside the box.