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Messages of condolences have poured in for South African cricket legend Clive Rice who passed away on Tuesday at 66.

What the great and the good have had to say about class throughout history.

With only four candidates applying for a vacancy at the Constitutional Court, there are rumours that Ray Zondo will merely rubberstamp appointments.

The M&G’s battle to gain access to a report on the conditions surrounding the 2002 elections in Zimbabwe returns to the High Court on June 14.

The management of South Africa’s heritage resources is in for a boost following the launch of a heritage-based study programme at Rhodes University.

The online charity auction for the right to name South Africa’s most recently discovered flower species has already drawn a bid of R60 000.

Cosatu has forwarded the name of its Western Cape provincial secretary, Tony Ehrenreich, to the ANC as a candidate for mayor of Cape Town.

A report that former president Thabo Mbeki was involved in the formation of Cope was a "misinterpretation", a Unisa professor said on Thursday.

The failure of the DA to remove prosecutions boss Menzi Simelane has cleared the way for him to focus on his duties, the government said on Wednesday.

Thirty-three years ago, on October 19 1977, the apartheid government banned three newspapers and many political organisations.

A <i>Sunday Times</i> journalist was arrested for fraud and defeating the ends of justice on Wednesday.

Foreign nationals fearing renewed outbreaks of xenophobic violence reportedly continued to seek transport out of Cape Town on Tuesday.

A Libyan plane arriving from SA crashed on Wednesday at Tripoli airport, killing all 105 people on board, it was reported.

At least two people died and others were critically injured when a Rovos Rail train derailed in Pretoria on Wednesday, paramedics said.

South Africa’s Mining Ministry said on Tuesday it would review a decision to award a new prospecting right in Kumba Iron Ore’s Sishen Mine.