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Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) TELKOM chief executive Sipho Maseko is at the centre of an investigation into a car licence cloning scandal.

Deputy President, Cyril Ramaphosa, must agitate for the Labour Relations Amendment Bill to be returned to Parliament if he is serious about his support for strike balloting.

Excavations at an archaeological site at Kathu in the Northern Cape province of South Africa have produced tens of thousands of Earlier Stone Age artifacts, including hand axes and other tools.

Two Kenyan rugby referees, Peris Mukoko and Victor Oduor left the country Thursday to attend a month long rugby training course at the prestigious Maties Referees Academy in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Charges laid against some individuals by Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille were never followed up and disappeared, she told the Seriti Commission of Inquiry on Thursday.

Even the DA is losing face with their dominance as the main vice of the ANC, as the agenda of the EFF army is now winning the attention of a nation, writes Ben Moshatama .

A police detective was shot dead while arresting two suspected fraudsters in Sinoville, Pretoria, on Thursday morning, Gauteng police said.

Sonke Gender Justice worked with the Department of Social Justice on the drafting of a White Paper on families.

Over a perfectly lovely cup of Sri Lankan tea in the literate saloon of their homey sailboat, Rainbow Gypsy, Cherry and Alec Yarrow recounted their voyage starting in Durban, South Africa that has landed them in Seward.

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A doctor was wounded at his home in Amandasig, Pretoria North, during a house robbery, Gauteng police said on Thursday.

A crew member aboard a rowboat currently attempting to break a world record has had to evacuate due to injury.

A leader of radical South African union AMCU was shot dead after being named in an inquiry into a deadly police crackdown during violent strikes at a platinum mine two years ago, a lawyer said Wednesday.

The Sharks swept the Highlanders before them in their qualifier by virtue of their powerful scrum but it is an area that the Crusaders, who possess their own heavy artillery, are likely to target in their semifinal.

Even the DA is losing face with their dominance as the main vice of the ANC, as the agenda of the EFF army is now winning the attention of a nation, writes Ben Moshatama .

A Pretoria police constable has been dismissed from the SA Police Service for assaulting a man and swearing at him during questioning, Gauteng police said on Wednesday.

Members of the National Union of Metalworkers march on the first day of a nationwide strike in Johannesburg, July 1, 2014.

What is happening in the Central African Republic and South Sudan today is, if you think of it, simply murder on a grand scale.

A new State witness was called in the trial of Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir and five others in the High Court in Johannesburg, sitting in Palm Ridge, on Tuesday.

I have heard many arguments for, and against, the death penalty. The fact remains that many South Africans would like it to be reinstated for crimes so evil in Nature, that South Africans unite in revulsion and sorrow.