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"I thought she would come back home safely." These were Vinolia Kekana's sad words after she had just learnt about her friend Philasande Ngum's death.

It is difficult to know what to think of the African Union, just as it is hard to assess the performance of the United Nations.

Eastern Cape teachers who planned to take the basic education department to court for non-payment have been paid, the department said on Friday.

The wife of a Welkom policeman killed near his office in November last year has been arrested in connection with his murder, Free State police said on Friday.

A KwaZulu-Natal man was sentenced by the Vryheid Regional Court to 18 years in jail for raping a 12-year-old girl, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Friday.

The Congress of SA Trade Unions is studying the court ruling halting its planned e-toll protest, it said on Friday.

TONY Stimson was dumbfounded when he came across the grave of a man his grandfather had shot dead in the Boer War.

The "justice" part of the criminal-justice system comes in for intense scrutiny, but the "criminal" part is, of course, just as important.

The Hawks police unit is investigating PetroSA, and a probe by the Central Energy Fund, its holding company, is said to be complete.

The IFP has won a ward seat from the ANC in Albert Luthuli municipality in a Mpumalanga by-election, IEC results have shown.

With freedom of expression under threat in South Africa again, Anton Harber recalls an electric confrontation between two Booker prize winners, JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, about the censorship of a third - Salman Rushdie It started on a Thursday midday, when the organiser of the Weekly Mail Book Week put the phone down, walked across the ... (more)

Green, bar-coded identity books will be replaced with identity smart cards from July, Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday.

Parliament will probably debate the deaths of initiates at the end of the month, the African National Congress chief whip's office said on Thursday.

The 'Fresh All Day' camp is becoming a little bit dry after two of its members left the group to pursue different career paths.

Nelson Mandela, old and frail, lives in seclusion in his Johannesburg home. Beyond the high walls of the house, the fighting over his image and what he stood for has already begun.

A South African government report released on Wednesday implicated President Jacob Zuma in a scandal over a plane chartered by rich friends of his which landed at a military base without proper permission.The presidency and Zuma's ruling African National Congress have denied demanding landing permission for the flight carrying nearly 200 guests for ... (more)

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 23-year-old in Umlazi, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Wednesday.

The University of the Witwatersrand marked the centenary of Indian cinema with two special events - a week-long screening of five famous Indian films from different eras and a talk by academic Dilp Menon, Director of the Centre for Indian Studies, titled 'Making a Song and Dance of it: taking Bollywood seriously'. Cinema buffs got a taste of how ... (more)

From The Algemeiner : "Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, a member of the South African Parliament and founder of the African Christian Democratic Party , sees irony in how the anti-Israel attitudes of his country's mainstream politicians are depriving them of benefits the Jewish state could bring them.

A man who died after a fitness test in KwaZulu-Natal last year succumbed because of an epileptic attack, a commission of inquiry heard on Wednesday.