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.
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.