Gauteng, South Africa News

Seven people have been injured in clashes between workers and security personnel at Lanxess AG's chrome unit amid a wildcat strike over pay.

An alleged armed robber and a policeman have been wounded in a shootout in Springs, Gauteng police said on Tuesday.

A teaser poster for a film adaptation of former president Nelson Mandela's autobiography has been unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival in France, Channel 24 reported on Monday.

The rand declined for a ninth day, weakening to a four-year low, as violent protests at a South African chrome mine raised renewed concern that labor disruptions will cut mining profits and slow economic growth.

At a time when diminishing faith in gold is spurring investors to sell record amounts of the metal, demand for platinum and palladium is strengthening as mining companies curb supply.

Carl Pistorius, the older brother of South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, was acquitted of culpable homicide over a deadly road crash five years ago.

Power games: Vuyani Dance Theatre s Shawn Mothupi , Sizwe Mgqwanti , Roseline Keppler, Phumlani Mndebele, Lulu Mlangeni, and Sherwin Road in front of the Gauteng Legislature in the poster image of Luyanda Sidiya s Dominion.

The KZN Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season has opened to a resounding start with conductor Daniel Boico leading the KZNPO in a symphonic illumination of the themes of love, life and death.

A Soweto taxi driver was expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Tuesday after allegedly punching a metro police officer over a fine on Monday.

There could be a shortage of clean water if South Africans do not work to conserve it, says Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa.

Why should the law regulate marriage when so many people in South Africa decide to live together or cohabit without getting married? asks Bertus Preller .

President Jacob Zuma has agreed to reinstate a deal with Maseru in which South Africa will finance a hydroelectric plant in Lesotho to boost electricity supplies to both countries.

Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled.

A man rides his bike past the Lonmin mine outside Rustenburg, in the northwest of Johannesburg, on Nov.

The woman who hired two men to burn down her love rival's house was found guilty of murder and arson on Friday.

Miss USA Nana Meriwether is expected to visit a Soweto school this week before jetting home to the States on Thursday.

Five months after Janine Meiring's newborn son Donavan died, just a few hours after he slipped from her body and bounced on the floor at a Pretoria hospital on Christmas Eve, she is still struggling to get answers and a death certificate.

Six years after its 2007 Seoul run, South Africa's iconic musical "Umoja: The Spirit of Togetherness" is back in Korea to show off the country's colorful and explosive culture, deeply linked to its stormy history.

Apartheid South Africa looked after white people and nobody else. Now some of its white communities face a level of deprivation, or of violence, which threatens their future in the country.

The Grammy Award winning Flack, who is best known for a string of hits like Killing Me Softly With His Song , Set the Night to Music and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face will give a special live performance at the event which will honor four distinguished individuals - Professor , Head of Government and International Affairs of the Johannesburg ... (more)