Top Indian telecom and security officials were set to meet on Monday to discuss a security stand-off with the maker of BlackBerry handsets.
President Jacob Zuma has instructed all the ministers in the public-service sector to return to the negotiating table in an attempt to end the strike.
The SACP will participate in the ANC national general council (NGC) in order to help strengthen the leadership and unity of the ANC and the alliance.
Police on Sunday arrested the driver of a taxi that crashed into an oncoming train, claiming the lives of 10 children.
Members of the South African Security Forces Union (Sasfu) will not join the public-sector strike, union president Bhekinkosi Mvovo said on Sunday.
The government should ensure there is a moratorium on salary increases in the upper levels of government, the SA Communist Party said on Sunday.
A Blue Bulls rugby player will appear in a Pretoria court on Monday for allegedly beating a metro policeman to death.
SABC CEO Solly Mokoetle intends to challenge his suspension by the public broadcaster’s board and any disciplinary action that may follow.
A team of 11 rescuers from the Johannesburg emergency services have arrived in Pakistan on a relief mission to the flood-stricken country.
Socialite, celebrity TV and website favourite Paris Hilton has been released by Las Vegas police after her arrest for possessing cocaine on Friday.
The Kindle is not as attractive as the iPad, but Amazon’s formerly derided e-reader is cheap and, most important, efficient.
Tiger Woods was unable to build on his first-round lead at The Barclays, slipping back on Friday with a second round that left him four adrift.
Ajax Cape Town made it a night to remember at the Cape Town Stadium on Friday when they beat Bloemfontein Celtic 2-0.
US drone aircraft have attacked suspected militants in north-west Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan, killing five people.
Human rights groups on Friday accused Zimbabwean police of setting fire to an informal settlement in Harare, forcing about 250 people to flee.
There have been no new wage talks between public-service unions and the government, the Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Friday.
Equatorial Guinea confirmed on Friday it had executed four former military officers convicted of an armed attack on its presidential palace last year.
North Korea would answer any attack on it with a nuclear "holy war", the country’s ambassador to Cuba said, according to official Chinese media.
A triumphant day meant to mark Kenya’s "second birth" has been tarnished after the government refused to arrest Sudan’s fugitive president.
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Kenya on Friday defended its invitation to Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who attended its Constitution celebrations.
We, as the hosts, should get our act together before the next climate change conference, says <b>David Le Page</b>.
The price of all grades of petrol will drop by 10 cents a litre on Wednesday, the energy department said on Friday.
A court heard on Friday that slain mining magnate Brett Kebble was jovial and making plans for the future on the night of his death.
Zimbabwe’s electoral commission will not be able to draw up a clean voters’ roll, a state daily reported on Friday.
Government suppression of the media is nothing new, but is harder to enforce in the digital era, argues Michelle le Roux.
Isn’t it a little depressing that, of everything women have contributed to civilisation, it is displaying your naked chest that men have picked up on?
A culture of inquiry and debate must be resurrected at all universities, writes <b>Jonathan Jansen</b>.
It is easy to dismiss the ANC Youth League as the comedy wing of the ANC. But these kids aren’t playing around.
The ANC, Cosatu and SACP like to tell us that the death of the tripartite alliance is greatly exaggerated.
Mogadishu’s civilian population is bracing itself for further fighting, with Islamist rebels expected to step up attacks on government-allied forces.
If racial privilege disallows unbiased commentary, how is a white artist supposed to critique a multiracial nation without being considered racist?