The South African government's latest 7.5% wage increase offer has been rejected by unions demanding...

A South African pastor has angered Christians by preaching a sermon entitled 'Jesus was HIV positive' in a bid to combat the stigma surrounding HIV and...

Pretoria - The withdrawal of the special dispensation which relaxed entry conditions for Zimbabweans travelling to South Africa for work, learning and travel has always been on the cards, Home...

Freedom House, the US-based NGO which has been closely monitoring political rights and civil liberties in every country of the world for decades, has ranked South Africa among Africa's few "free"...

By Hanti Otto Naas Botha is to appeal against the Pretoria Maintenance Court's judgment ordering him to pay R10 000 a month to his son. Notice of appeal was served yesterday on the office of...

Controversial Blue Bulls prop Bees Roux appears almost certain to walk away scot free from any drunken driving conviction. Despite numerous reports, starting with the Pretoria News Weekend's own...

Weatern Cape Premier Helen Zille's cabinet reshuffle to embrace ID leader Patricia de Lille at the expense of provincial MEC for community safety Lennit Max, has raised eyebrows with some insiders...

Nobody will be allowed to take "inappropriate" pictures at KwaZulu-Natal's annual reed dance, the provincial arts and culture department said. "We will only accredit media representatives and...

By Christelle Terreblanche A secret document intercepted by the SA police in London alerted National Police Commissioner General Bheki Cele to the imminent outsourcing of the entire police...

Edition 1 LONDON: Tabloid newspaper The News of the World is promising more revelations about cricket match fixing when it hits the streets tomorrow - just hours before England play the...

Why Zille axed Max Weatern Cape Premier Helen Zille's cabinet reshuffle to embrace ID leader Patricia de Lille at the expense of provincial MEC for community safety Lennit Max, has raised eyebrows...

Smit banks on everything coming up roses The Springboks invariably come up smelling of roses when they play Test matches in the Free State capital and captain John Smit is banking on more of the...

Easy win for Venus as she advances in US Open New York - Venus Williams easily eliminated 185th-ranked qualifier Mandy Minella of Luxembourg 6-2, 6-1 on Friday at the US Open. The No. 3-seeded...

Day, Johnson share lead as Woods struggles Boston, Massachusetts - Zach Johnson and Jason Day beat the rain on Friday to share the clubhouse lead in the first round of the Deutsche Bank...

South Africa's national soccer team Bafana Bafana must win Saturday's 2012 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier against Niger "at all costs", coach Pitso Mosimane said on Thursday.The...

Phil Molefe instructed staff to run the story of his appointment as head of SABC news as an item on news bulletins and five days later allegedly ordered them to kill a story about board objections to...

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Johannesburg - Five men were killed when a truck drove over their Toyota Tazz near Welkom on Friday night, Free State paramedics said.The truck and double trailer and the Tazz apparently both failed...

September 4, 2010 Maputo - Mozambique's economy has lost more than $3-million because of deadly riots over the rising prices of food and other goods, the government said on Friday, as state media...

By Nongcebo Dladla There may well be another Zuma baby on the way - bringing all the president's children to a tally of 22. The Ilanga newspaper reported on Friday that President Jacob Zuma's...

September 4, 2010 New York - US stocks posted gains on Friday as investors were cheered by a better-than-expected monthly report on the unemployment situation. The US jobless rate rose slightly in...

Durban - Two men were killed when their car crashed into the side of a heavy goods truck near Richards Bay on Saturday, KwaZulu-Natal paramedics said. Netcare911 spoksman Jeff Wicks said the...

September 4, 2010 Washington - The security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the...

September 4, 2010 By Herbert Lash New York - Stocks jumped and commodities rose on Friday after data showing fewer US job losses than expected reinforced other reports this week to ease fears the...

Japanese officials are struggling with the strongest currency in 15 years, but for consumers and some companies there have been benefits. Dan Sloan...

2010/09/04 IT WILL take striking workers about five years to offset the wages they have lost if they immediately accept the government’s revised offer to the public sector. Economists have...

2010/09/04 MDANTSANE has been rocked by the gruesome murders of two women in separate incidents in the space of a few days. Police have arrested three teenagers who they believe are linked to...

2010/09/04 EVE van Coller may be more than a century old, but she can still take on a two-kilometre walk. The Cathcart woman yesterday celebrated her 101st birthday in a somewhat unconventional...

2010/09/04 AT LEAST three humpback whales have washed up along the South African coast this week alone, and an East London scientist has raised concern about the fatalities. On Wednesday (September...

2010/09/04 THE former Cambridge High School bursar, who siphoned nearly R3 million from the school’s bank account over almost two years, was yesterday (September 3) sentenced to eight...

2010/09/04 A VILLAGE in Stutterheim yesterday celebrated the return of one of its long-lost residents – an elderly woman who left the area more than 50 years ago. Nonzwakazi Ndzungu, 73,...

2010/09/04 MORE than 760 jobs will be lost in Buffalo City as a once major textile employer, Da Gama Textiles, retrenches more than half its workforce. There are fears the deep job cuts may sound...

2010/09/04 SOUTH Africa will have to wait out the weekend to find out if public servants start their fourth week of strikes on Monday or accept the government’s latest wage offer. Union...

2010/09/04 ID LEADER Patricia de Lille is to join the Western Cape government as Social Development Minister. Provincial Premier Helen Zille told a press conference in the provincial...

Edition 2 WELLINGTON: A 7.0 magnitude earthquake has rocked New Zealand's second largest city, Christchurch, causing widespread damage including the collapse of some buildings and power...

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NEW DELHI — Loved and loathed in equal measure, the drone of the vuvuzela will resonate in India for the first time at the Commonwealth Games in October. The plastic horn, which went on to...

ABOUT 1 000 crime suspects were killed in KwaZulu-Natal between 2008 and last year and 13 police officers have been convicted in connection with the deaths. Independent Complaints Directorate...

DEATHS due to hospital disruptions continue to mount as the public sector strike drags on. On Thursday night an elderly patient died after Northdale Hospital could not admit her overnight,...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa will have to wait this weekend to find out if public servants start their fourth week of strikes on Monday or accept the government’s latest wage offer. Union...