The younger sister of Bok hero Schalk Burger spoke out bravely on Thursday as she confirmed that she was the unnamed student who was abducted and gang-raped.
SOCIAL and political phenomena are seldom reducible to a single explanation. This applies to most conflicts, including the xenophobic barbarism that has engulfed the Johannesburg township of Alexandra.
The Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority would require an eight-fold increase of its budget if it was to expand capacity over the next five years , head of the unit Willie Hofmeyr said yesterday.
Far from the labour market being too rigid, as critics have claimed, it was tilting towards being too flexible as the workforce was experiencing increasing insecurity, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said in his budget vote speech in the National Assembly
The secrets of a seven-metre fishing boat, estimated to be nearly 100 years old, buried in the sand of Kalk Bay beach may forever remain a mystery as authorities consider leaving the vessel untouched.
THE attempt to extract $400bn in reparations for apartheid from about 50 multinational corporations via the US courts, over the strenuous objections of the South African government, won a reprieve this week.
IT WAS an icy April in 2000, and I was in Minsk, Belarus, with a team of South African tennis writers covering our Davis Cup squad's futile attempts to advance to the World Group of the premier team tennis competition.
SA's black economic empowerment has been given the thumbs up as a driver of economic activity, with more than half of privately owned businesses expected to change ownership in the next decade.
THABO, an accomplished trumpeter and former music teacher, could not join the a ir force band after he went for auditions two years ago -- because he was HIV-positive.
SA's BLACK economic empowerment has been given the thumbs up as a driver of economic activity, with more than half of privately owned businesses expected to change ownership in the next decade.
SUSPENDED SABC group CEO Dali Mpofu's lawyer told the Johannesburg High Court yesterday that the public broadcaster's board broke corporate governance rules when it suspended Mpofu.
IF IT wasn't so misguided there'd be something almost touching about Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin's vision for a vastly expanded state-owned industrial empire. It will, he says, thrive on massive infrastructure spending by the state in the next two
In response to the recent extract from William Gumede's book "Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC" published by Zed Books (http://zedbooks.co.uk), Patrick Bond suggests that there is a need to go beyond the individual reasons
Initiatives such as neighbourhood watches and community policing forums have led to a 32 percent drop in contact crimes in the Western Cape, Community Safety MEC Leonard Ramatlakane revealed on Thursday.
The Nigerian central bank yesterday granted South African microlender Blue Financial Services permission to launch the biggest microfinance bank in Africa's most populous country, CEO Dave van Niekerk said.
FINANCE Minister Trevor Manuel announced sweeping changes to the tax system yesterday which will affect the way employers submit their annual pay as you earn (PAYE) tax declarations to the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and the way individuals receive,
