It is ingrained in the national consciousness that the only way to deal with inflation is for Tito Mboweni to use increasingly large clubs to clobber the consumer with higher and higher interest rates.
Two life sentences are an appropriate punishment for convicted murderer Andrew Jordaan, the Pretoria High Court heard on Friday.
The Springboks kick off the beginning of a new era on Saturday by hosting Wales in a Test match at Bloemfontein’s Vodacom Park.
With only one more practice session left before the Special Olympics golf tournament, about 100 children with disabilities arrived in high spirits at the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club in Linksfield.
The regulatory framework that will enforce the energy conservation programme and penalise consumers who use electricity excessively is being finalised, it was reported on Friday.
A series of anonymous letters from employees and former employees of daily newspaper <i>Beeld</i> to the board of its holding company, Media24, has accused Beeld management of "serious corruption".
It’s been a long and hard journey with eclectic influences but Malatji’s first album looks set to become a hit.
Gold Fields, the world’s fourth-largest gold producer, on Friday confirmed that the illegal strike at its Beatrix mine near Welkom in the Free State had been called off.
South African miner Gold Fields said on Friday workers at its Beatrix gold mine had stopped an illegal strike, but production had been affected.
If you followed the media after Bafana Bafana’s loss to Nigeria, you would have thought the result was one of football’s greatest shocks.
Trade union Solidarity on Friday said 100 of its members were trapped 900m underground at Gold Fields’ Beatrix mine outside of Welkom in the Free State
A suspected thief caused a commotion when he took off all his clothes — after being caught by security guards — in a Bloemfontein state building.
With the launch of e.tv’s 24-hour news channel, <i>M&G</i> writers decided to switch on their TV sets and sit out the long news night.
President Thabo Mbeki insisted this week that he had no prior warning of xenophobic violence, but he was flatly contradicted by a group of Congolese and Rwandan refugees in Cape Town.
Advocates for Transformation this week reacted to the Hlophe uproar by rejecting calls for his suspension.
Cape Judge President John Hlophe will face a tough, courtroom-style interrogation by the disciplinary committee of the Judical Service Commission.
The chair of Parliament’s justice committee has called for the Judicial Service Commission to consider opening to the public some of its hearings on the conduct of Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
Andrew Jordaan, the convicted killer of seven-year-old Sheldean Human, was described on Thursday both as a paedophile and someone too gentle to be a murderer.
A man who doused a young woman with petrol and another who set her alight in 2006 were convicted of murder in the Cape High Court on Thursday.
The Free State provincial government has taken control of the struggling Xhariep and Mohokare municipalities in the southern parts of the province.
A woman sitting on a basket quietly stirs a pan of spinach on a paraffin stove. Children run around noisily between plastic bags, suitcases, blankets and mattresses.
The proposed 10,5% salary increase for public servants is technically correct, the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa said in Pretoria on Thursday.
An Eastern Cape man was the target of ”devastating” sexual taunts from his wife before he allegedly killed her, the Grahamstown High Court heard on Thursday.
The political conspiracy that African National Congress president Jacob Zuma claims is behind attempts to have him prosecuted for fraud and corruption could be revealed within the next year.
A damning exit report by a team of experts blasts the Department of Home Affairs for failing asylum-seekers in South Africa.
Civil society bodies on Thursday urged the Southern African Development Community governments to impose a moratorium on the supply of arms to Zimbabwe.
World champions South Africa suffered a major setback ahead of the first of two Tests against Wales on Saturday.
A whopping 81% of South African children between the ages of 13 and 17 have seen pornographic images on their friends’ cellphones and 67% have been exposed to pornography through movies, media reports said.
The drunken-driving charge against Tony Yengeni, former chief whip of the African National Congress, is linked to the criminal case involving the former commander of the Goodwood police station, Siphiwo Hewana, the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court heard.
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union on Thursday rejected the proposed public-service annual increase of 10,5%.
There’s an awful lot of smoke surrounding Cape Judge President John Hlophe. Where’s the fire?
Traffic in central Johannesburg came to a standstill on Thursday as thousands of South African Municipal Workers’ Union members marched through the city’s streets.