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President Jacob Zuma on Monday signed the Defence Amendment Bill into law.

The government doesn’t have the money to fetch the remains of all the MK members who died in African countries during the apartheid struggle,says kwaZulu-Natal premier Zweli Mkhize.

Five people have been killed when a car crashed into the donkey cart they were riding on

The woes of the Navy's SAS Manthatisi, which has been out of commission for nearly three years, include fuses blown because somebody inserted a plug in the wrong socket.

A Bothasig family says Zola Tongo, sentenced to 18 years for his part in the Dewani murder, gave police their address as his.

Trade union Hospersa has demanded an apology from KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo for shutting down two radiotherapy machines at Durban's Addington Hospital.

MPs should join other respected local and international groups to push for the decriminalisation of prostitution, rights activists have told Parliament's joint committee on HIV/Aids. ...

The ruling party wants reliable cadres to take South Africa into the future, says ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe.

A Zambian truck driver who was forced to kick, bite and stab his way from the clutches of a giant python, says he is lucky to be alive.

The public has a right to know whether various imported meat products, including water buffalo, donkey and horse meat, are "potentially harmful", the DA says.

Andrew Parker's point about inertia in the conservation industry is exacerbated by the fatigue and ­frustration associated with academic debate.

Botswana's government will next week remove hundreds of Bushmen from their land to make way for a wildlife park, claims an indigenous rights group.

Minister Susan Shabangu has spotlighted rivalry between NUM and Amcu, and instructed them to join hands against a common enemy: "monopoly capital".

Two events on two continents have inspired South African designers and landscape gardeners to make designs reflecting the diversity of local flora.

Carefully honed and systematically applied reconciliation policies could serve to strengthen cooperation and renewal on the continent.

Dell says it has a deal to buy the data storage company Compellent Technologies for $884-million. ||| Dell Inc said on Monday it has a deal to buy the data storage company Compellent Tec...

“We call on our members to intensify their militant action until an acceptable offer is presented by the spoilt golden boys and girls of BHP Billiton,” says Numsa. ||| Nation...

More South African farmers expect to receive land offers in Mozambique as they seek to expand across Africa amid uncertainty over land reform at home. ||| Olivia Kumwenda Johannesburg - ...

Gold edged back up above $1,390 an ounce in Europe as last week's price dip of more than 2 percent brought physical buyers back to the market. ||| Jan Harvey London - Gold edged back up ...

Those publicising these leaks should understand the potentially dire consequences of their actions, writes Stuart Sterzel. ||| In the ongoing WikiLeaks debate, much has been said about v...

ANC President, Jacob Zuma, is delivering the third centenary commemorative lecture.

The Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa) has called on all its members to boycott nationwide anti-toll gate protest action.

Provinces cannot pass their own laws regulating financial management. That is according to a ruling in the Constitutional Court.

Johannesburg Mayor Parks Tau has announced that the city will spend R100 billion over the next ten years towards infrastructure development and upgrading.

Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has announced the 10 districts where the National Health Insurance (NHI) will be piloted from next month.

Cosatu is getting impatient with authorities and will continue to wage war against e-tolls, its Gauteng secretary Dumisani Dakile said on Friday.

The leader of the Khoi and San in KwaZulu-Natal has called for the word "coloured" to be abolished because it is a derogatory term, the Witness reported on Monday.

NEW shocking evidence of police boasting about having "blown up" a miner emerged yesterday at the Marikana commission of inquiry.

President Jacob Zuma has condemned the practice of using his name and that of Cabinet Ministers to secure privileges or flout government procedures.

A banned Swazi political party accused South Africa's diplomatic mission of handing the names of activists over to the absolute monarchy's security services.

MPs should join other respected local and international groups to push for the decriminalisation of prostitution, rights activists told Parliament's joint committee on HIV/Aids on Friday.

Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula confirmed on Friday that South Africa had deployed troops in countries neighbouring the Central African Republic.

A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the men accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its "courage" and said Muslims wo...

Cosatu is getting impatient with authorities and will continue to wage war against e-tolls, its Gauteng secretary Dumisani Dakile said.

The ANC in Gauteng will send 6 000 volunteers to Sicelo in Midvaal to campaign for the 2014 elections.

The government of Botswana will next week evict hundreds of Bushmen from their land to make way for a wildlife park.

More than 90 people were arrested for protest-related crimes in Evaton, Orange Farm and Sebokeng, south of Johannesburg, Gauteng police said

A Swaziland high court judge has become entangled in messy battle over custody of a dachshund puppy,

President Barack Obama wants to roll back some of the most controversial aspects of the U.S. "war on terror,"

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) cannot be blamed for the violence in the mining sector, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said.

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Major-General Johan Booysen, head of the Hawks in KZN, has been arrested.

Apology for Mazibuko remarks deemed sufficient.

The Democratic Alliance’s battle to ensure that President Jacob Zuma has his day in court is set to go ahead.

Former police commissioner Jackie Selebi is back in hospital after suffering dialysis complications.

Youth Day means many things to South Africans, so we stepped out and let them have their say!

The Springboks are aiming to become unbeatable on South African soil, says Jean de Villiers.

Pirate Party representatives from more than 20 countries met to discuss 2014 EU polls.

The deputy agriculture minister suggested that black people had no historical claim to 40 percent of SA.

Thabo Mbeki says that South Africans deserved to know hidden facts about the country's history.

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[Nation] The Kenya military is set to benefit from the United States financial assistance once it is fully integrated into the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), an envoy has said.

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Government has had to go back to local pharmaceutical giants Aspen Pharmacare, Adcock Ingram and Cipla Medpro for the supply of anti retroviral (ARV) drugs to HIV/Aids patients.

Trash piles up on Jo’burg pavements,

In a move aimed at easing its debilitating debt burden, Edcon has resorted to an unusual course for a credit retailer: selling its entire debtors book.

Samsung says its recently launched third-generation Galaxy S smartphone is “designed for humans”.

Zanele Bridgette Gasa, the youngest member of the national planning commission, recently completed her PhD in construction management at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, which ...

China warned of a "humanitarian disaster" in Libya and expressed "deep concern" at reported civilian casualties as it renewed calls on Tuesday for an end to fighting in the North African ...

Libya released four New York Times journalists on Monday, nearly a week after they had been captured by Libyan forces while covering the conflict there, although three journalists for oth...

State lawmakers called on California utilities Monday to delay efforts to relicense nuclear power plants until the companies complete detailed seismic maps to get a true picture of the ri...

A Venezuelan government official says one person has died of swine flu and six others have been diagnosed with the virus.

The tiny hyena sucking on Dr. Kariuki Edward's gloved finger will be able to bite through steel and crack open bones when it grows up.

You’re silly if you’re doing a little happy dance at the way the rand is falling off a cliff, writes Quentin Wray

Media needs to hasten its pace of transformation so all cultures in the country have a voice, says Media Development and Diversity Agency CEO

President Jacob Zuma has the right to choose his own friends but, just as certain names can suggest approval, others might invite disapprobation, writes Z Pallo Jordan

In creating a country narrative, truth is not critical to persuasion but any story has to at least be believable, writes Itumeleng Mahabane

At times of violence and upheaval it can be helpful to listen to steadying voices, writes Anthony Butler

2 men were arrested on board a Pakistan International Airlines plane for endangering the aircraft.

Shabangu said NUM should never stoop to the level of rival unions who use intimidation to increase membership.

The FSB welcomed the NPA's decision to appeal the verdict against J Arthur Brown.

Hundreds of people attended Vuyo Mbuli's funeral service in Houghton and burial at Westpark Cemetery.

Metro police raided Hoerskool CR Swart on Friday following tip-offs from teachers and parents.

Vince Musewe says very little is trickling down to ordinary Africans from latest boom

The front page and lead story of SA's largest daily newspaper, May 24 2013

SGB says school didn't hold any matric dance and it had nothing to do with private function organised by some parents

Authority says Council clutching at straws in attempt to paint a bleak picture

Walter Mothapo says while economy remains in white hands the "African voice" will never prevail in media

Charity begins at home, and Africans need to take the first bold steps to deal with problems affecting them instead of depending on the west. Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki's...

THE MV City of Xiamen , a container ship flagged in Antigua and Barbuda, was about 160km (100 miles) off the Nigerian coast in the evening of April 25th when 14 pirates, armed to the tee...

IN MARCH last year the heads of state of Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan met among mangroves in Lamu, a Kenyan town on the Indian Ocean, to launch the construction of a port and oil pipe...

Just your friendly neighbourhood cops SOLDIERS sit sweltering in bunkers made from sandbags on the streets of Maiduguri, a town in north-eastern Nigeria at the centre of a four-year Isla...

A WIDENING arc of violence across Iraq is raising fears that the country could fracture under the weight of sectarian and political strife. Attacks in the past week stretched from north ...

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Nigeria's Finance Minister discusses her long-term strategy for the country's future economic success.

MPA looks at how grassroots companies in Africa are changing the economic fabric of many countries on the continent.

Major international hotel chains are increasingly rolling out thousands of new rooms in Africa's business hotspots, keen to expand their footprint on the continent's burgeoning economies.

CNN's Zain Verjee meets Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who talks about what inspires her work and making an impact back home.

Born an albino, Josephat Torner has overcome discrimination and stigmatism in his country, Tanzania.

Militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar masterminded the two suicide bombs in Niger on Thursday which killed 20 people, a Mauritanian news agency reports.

The Nigerian army says it has destroyed a number of camps used by militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, in the north-east of the country.

A pregnant woman has been shot dead in Tanzania during a security operation after gas protests in Mtwara, a journalist in the town tells the BBC.

China has offered soldiers to the new UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, expected to deploy to the West African nation before July, UN officials say.

Thousands of mourners attend the funeral of renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in his home town of Ogidi in Anambra state.

As many as 33 young men are now thought to have died over two weeks in one province of South Africa as they took part in traditional initiation ceremonies that included circumcision and e...

Former South African first lady refused to open the doors of her home to bailiffs.

Carl Pistorius, the older brother of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, has been cleared over the death of a female motorcyclist who crashed into his car during a bike rally in 2008. ...

Footage of a gang of baboons filmed clambering through an open upstairs window of a Cape Town residence and helping themselves to food while running amok has become a viral hit.

A British family of four planning a holiday to South Africa could be forced to pay an additional £320 thanks to proposals to introduce a visa requirement, which industry insiders fear cou...

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