The city of Cape Town says it is to hold a workshop in a bid to find solutions to the city’s refugee crisis.
At least 21 of the 62 people who died in the recent xenophobic violence were South African citizens, government communications head Themba Maseko said on Thursday.
The City of Cape Town says it will fight a High Court order that it open up community halls to foreign nationals displaced by last month’s xenophobic violence.
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.
Scorpions investigator Ivor Powell walked free on Monday after charges against him of drunken driving and reckless driving were struck off the roll in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court.
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.
Heribert Adam reflects on anti-apartheid journalism and how ”multipliers of liberal opinion” such as journalist Gerald Shaw can inform and educate.
It is a brave new world that the third edition of the Cape Town Book Fair, subtitled <i>Words Create Worlds</i>, encounters from June 14.
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.
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 past couple of weeks have confirmed the truly risky nature of our constitutional journey, begun more than a decade ago.
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.
EnAct International has played a key role in developing a pioneering legal philosophy and approach to governance called "Earth Jurisprudence".
A meeting of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) was under way on Friday to consider an allegation levelled against Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
The Daihatsu Terios is like the middle child who has to work extra hard all the time.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 rising cost of food is a time bomb that could result in uprisings, African National Congress president Jacob Zuma told the World Economic Forum on Africa on Thursday.
Tensions that triggered a backlash against foreigners last month are likely to simmer for years as South Africa’s poor domestic skills base forces it to rely on migrant labour.
Reintegration of displaced xenophobia victims into the communities where they come from is the government’s priority, Cabinet ministers and provincial politicians said on Wednesday.
About 142 court cases linked to xenophobic violence have been opened countrywide, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Tlali Tlali said 102 of these were in Gauteng. Provincial police liaison officers approached said none of the 142 cases had reached the conviction stage yet.
There is much to lament about with the latest violence in South Africa. We Africans have been hijacked by our worst selves and this has made us paranoid and unable to use our best people to rebuild nations. The insanities of a few criminal Nigerians have come to dominate our perceptions of that country, however unfairly.
There were a few tense moments on Monday when a crowd of several hundred refugees marched to Parliament to air their grievances over the recent xenophobic violence. After being addressed by, among others, Zackie Achmat of the Treatment Action Campaign, sections of the crowd surged towards a small line of police officers outside the main gates of Parliament.
Authorities began setting up tents at displacement sites in Johannesburg on Saturday to shelter some of the thousands of foreigners who fled a recent wave of xenophobic attacks. The death toll from the attacks across South Africa has risen to 62, with 670 injured, said national police spokesperson Sally de Beer.
President Thabo Mbeki has brushed off criticism that he failed to show compassion by not visiting areas affected by violent attacks against foreigners around the country, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Thursday.
Sasol on Wednesday announced the 50 black groups which will share in its R28-billion black economic empowerment (BEE) Inzalo transaction. They included energy and mining women’s groups, Sasol business suppliers, customers, franchisees and trade union investment companies, groups conducting skills and community upliftment projects, and professional associations.