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Greg Lawrence maintains blow moulding machines at Nampak. The maker of plastic bottles, beverage cans and cardboard boxes is expanding its plants in sub-Saharan Africa and sizing up acquisition opportunities as South African growth slows.

News24 user Miriam Mannak submitted these great photos of the weekend snowfall n the Western Cape.

Nelson Mandela achieved almost universal respect around the world and across the political spectrum.

The recent mining strike, which was a national disaster that cost business and workers billions, proves basic trade union precepts defy economic logic, says Martin Warburg .

South Africa's NUMSA union rebuffed the latest pay offer from employers on Sunday, saying black workers still bore the brunt of inequalities, and threatened to widen its strike of metal workers and engineers to other sectors.

A mother who killed her newborn daughter by strangling her and then forcing a facecloth down her throat has been sentenced to 15 years in jail.

The bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa accounts for 40 per cent of the global population and a combined GDP of $24 trillion.

ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu says he reveres "the sanctity of life - but not at any cost", saying he would not want his life "prolonged".

South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein on Friday demanded that his country's ruling party retract a statement comparing Israel with Nazi Germany, accusing a senior ANC official of having "betrayed the South African dream of peaceful and dignified dialogue."

The last farmworker to abandon National Council of Provinces chairperson Thandi Modise's farm said his family was forced to leave because they faced starvation, the Sunday Times reported.

No one is praying harder for the recovery of Silindile Mhlongo than the boy who saved her life.

A fifth body has been recovered in Soweto where a building collapsed last month, Gauteng police said on Saturday.

A 66-year-old woman has been wounded in a shooting at her Pietermaritzburg home, KwaZulu-Natal paramedics said on Saturday.

The BRICS group of emerging powers will launch its own development bank at a summit next week, using its growing influence to establish a counterweight to Western-dominated financial organizations.

I am not a great fan of the word "icon" when attached to wine. It seems to me that wines ought to earn iconic status from their admirers rather than have it thrust upon them by marketeers keen to segment their product range.

Angela Dike was showing clients how to make duck red curry and chocolate spring rolls in her Thai cooking class when hail stones as big as golf balls started slamming into the 18 cars parked outside.

A court orderly, who allegedly accepted a R150 bribe to allow an awaiting trial prisoner to have sex with a prisoner's girlfriend, was sent for 30 days' psychiatric observation on Friday.

The State will oppose a bail application to be launched later this month by a policeman charged with raping two teenage boys, the Blue Downs District Court heard on Friday.

A Pietermaritzburg businessman was shot dead outside his Newholmes Way home on Thursday night as his terrified wife and three children looked on.

Members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa march during a strike in Cape Town September 9, 2013.