Controversial comments made by African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema on June 16 were not a call for the youth to take up arms, ANC president Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. Malema told a Youth Day rally in

Although headline-grabbing incidents of racism show that a pathology of racism still exists, it is not the predominant form of racism in South Africa, University of South Africa principal and vice-chancellor Barney Pityana said on Wednesday. He was opening a

The media have no space for the poor to raise their views, African National Congress president Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. He said the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa were about angry people who felt they had not been

The Pretoria High Court on Wednesday granted a landmark ruling that Chinese South Africans are to be included in the definition of "black people" in legislation designed to benefit previously disadvantaged groups. None of the government departments cited as respondents

Four people were confirmed dead on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast on Wednesday as a result of floods following heavy rainfall, rescue services said. Ugu district municipality spokesperson Brian Dube said 250 people had been rescued. Rescue teams were still searching

Intolerance was at the root of the xenophobic attacks that swept the country last month, Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool told a debate in Johannesburg on Tuesday night. "If you don't deal with sexism, you can't hope to deal with

Constitutional Court judges are to press on with a complaint against Cape Town Judge President John Hlophe. On Tuesday, a document dealing with the allegation that Hlophe tried to influence two of the judges in cases involving African National Congress