A woman has landed in hospital in a serious condition after being attacked by a vervet monkey, just days after a man was headbutted by a giraffe.
Cabinet minister Derek Hanekom has told farmers the failure of the willing buyer, willing seller land reform system was government’s fault.
The Proteas have managed to regain ground in their first Test against New Zealand by dismissing Brendon McCullum and Ross Taylor in quick succession.
Thousands of Cosatu members and supporters took to the streets of Johannesburg on Wednesday to oppose e-tolling and labor broking.
South Africa’s women have taken up 28% of senior management positions in 2012, setting the country ahead of the global average, a survey has shown.
Mexico telecoms czar Carlos Slim has topped the <i>Forbes</i> annual world’s richest list, sporting a $69-billion fortune that outpaced Bill Gates.
American military doctors are reporting that the number of suicides in the US army rose by 80% after the US launched the war on Iraq.
Toto Thimba Junior shot 67 on the second day to win the Houghton, Johannesburg tournament of the Sunshine Big Easy Tour.
Equal Education has filed papers against Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to establish minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure.
Fears of more unexploded munitions at a Congo arms depot where a series of blasts killed nearly 200 people have delayed the search for more wounded.
A Council of Europe committee has called on Fifa to investigate Fifa president Sepp Blatter’s re-election as the governing body’s head honcho.
Syrians have sought refuge in Lebanon after troops continued bombardments in Baba Amr, the opposition’s stronghold.
The carcasses of three white rhinos — two pregnant — believed to have been shot by poachers, have been found in Limpopo by patrolling rangers.
Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway last July, has been charged with committing acts of terror and voluntary homicide.
The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry has reported a slight recovery in February’s business confidence numbers.
The DA has accused a parliamentary committee of trying to protect the trade and industry department by voting to keep an arms deal report secret.
Our ancestors made the evolutionary split with gorillas about 10-million years ago but we still share a remarkable number of genes with the great ape.
Zimbabwe has rejected a request by platinum miner Zimplats to extend a deadline to hand over a nearly 30% stake under a contentious equity law.
The South African national women’s team have finished 10th in the Cyprus Cup after they lost to their Scottish counterparts.
Julius Malema has told thousands of Cosatu marchers that the ANC must be reminded of the needs of the masses who voted the party into power.
A female suicide bomber who was the widow of an Islamist militant killed five police officers when she blew herself up at a checkpoint in Dagestan.
Zimbabwe has turned down a request from Impala Platinum to extend a BEE hand-over deadline at its Zimplats unit to a state-run fund.
The UN’s refugee agency says about 3 000 people from the DRC have been displaced amid renewed rebel attacks since the beginning of this year.
The recently crowned world No. 1 golfer Rory McIlroy has tried his hand at tennis after facing Maria Sharapova in an exhibition match in New York.
The ANC’s young lions are set to confront the government by joining Cosatu’s national strike against labour brokers and the e-tolling system.
Mitt Romney assured his followers he would earn the 2012 Republican nomination, as he savoured Super Tuesday victories and savaged Barack Obama.
Nigeria has accused South Africa of xenophobia after 125 of its travellers were refused entry into SA due to allegedly fake vaccination cards.
South African National Parks rangers have shot and killed a suspected rhino poacher and wounded two others at the Kruger National Park.
Provincial finance minister Seiso Mohai says education in the Free State will get the biggest slice of the province’s R24.8-billion budget.
The ANC says the media should be regulated by a body independent of state and business to prevent either political or commercial interference.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal says its members had better not discuss the disciplinary committee’s decision to expel ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema.
Zanu-PF says elections could be held this year even if political reforms, including a new Constitution, requested by meditators are not ready in time.