Bold intervention was needed to increase the number of PhD graduates in SA, said a study released on Monday by the Academy of Science of South Africa.

Traffic officials plan to stop and search one million motorists a month in a bid to reduce road deaths, Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele says.

Communities plagued by crime, often violent, claim desperation as the reason for their acts of vigilantism, an expert says.

Education will solve poverty, unemployment and growing inequalities in South Africa, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday.

Public service unions affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions on Wednesday resolved to go on strike over wages.

Eskom’s three unions have "in principle" accepted the power utility’s latest wage offer, they said on Friday.

The National Union of Mineworkers on Wednesday notified Eskom of its intention to go on strike next week over wages, a union spokesperson said.