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Sex workers in Durban on Friday welcomed the call by the Commission for Gender Equality for the decriminalisation of sex work.

Age slows us all, but a few rare types sail through the years somehow unimpeded.

Operations at a chrome mine in South Africa owned by chemicals group Lanxess have been suspended since Thursday after workers started an illegal strike over bonus payments, the National Union of Mineworkers said on Saturday.

A second top oncologist has quit in the wake of the KwaZulu-Natal health department's failure to keep two state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines operational at Durban's Addington Hospital, Sapa was told on Friday.

A bookkeeper who allegedly stole thousands of rands from the Jewish Community Centre will plead guilty to a charge of theft later this month, the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court heard on Friday.

State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele told Parliament this week there was evidence that several South African citizens were linked to international terrorism organisations, including al-Qaeda. Cwele expressed confidence that on the weight of the evidence gathered the suspects would be arrested and charged soon.

A carpenter who had denied he killed Pietermaritzburg widow Venotha Ince, came clean on Thursday and apologised to Ince's family for what he had done.

AVENGERS 2 might be filming in SOUTH AFRICA, does this mean that Black Panther is going to be a part of the action!?! There has been a ton of smoke when it comes to speculation that Black Panther is going to make an appearance in the next AVENGERS film: So to me it is not a matter of if Marvel is going to use Black Panther in their cinematic ... (more)

Some people believe the DA will reinstate Apartheid should they win the national elections.

South African doctor Cyril Karabus, 78, greets well-wishers at Cape Town airport.

In this July 7, 2006 file photo an unidentified initiate, with his face caked in white lime clay, eats rice from his blanket during his rite of transformation from a boy to manhood near Port St.

An assistant engineer at Skycare Maintenance in Lanseria, Prince Makhubela, is infuriated by what he says is continued abuse by one of his supervisors, Harry McGarry.

A parliamentary debate on the unauthorised landing at the Waterkloof Air Force Base has been moved forward, the ANC has said.

The FW de Klerk Foundation on Thursday formally accepted the apology of a man who allegedly posted a racist tweet.

An independent team will investigate bullying at a school in Mabopane, north of Pretoria, after an 11-year-old boy had to be hospitalised, the Gauteng education department said on Thursday.

South African soldiers who are training for a United Nations military mission in Congo will be adequately prepared even though the South African army as a whole is overstretched and underfunded, the army chief said Thursday.

Spanish bullfighter David Galan performs with a Jose Escolar's ranch fighting bull during a bullfight of the San Isidro fair at Las Ventas bullring in Madrid, Monday, May 13, 2013.

London - British businessman Shrien Dewani - wanted in South Africa in connection with the honeymoon murder of his wife - has suffered a mental health relapse, a London court heard today.

Joseph Mathunjwa, president of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union , addresses members of the mining community during a strike at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine in Rustenburg on Wednesday.

Eskom has partnered with the SABC to give South Africans daily real time information on the power system, the power utility has said.