Gauteng, South Africa News

DIEPSLOOT, South Africa : A dusty maze of concrete, sheet metal and scrap wood, Diepsloot is like so many of the enormous settlements around Johannesburg, mile after mile of feebly assembled shacks, the ...

By Eleanor Momberg Barbara Hogan, South Africa's new health minister, and her deputy, Dr Molefi Sefularo, were asked to hold one of their meetings outside the department's premises this week so that senior ...

Three die following flu-like symptoms THREE people have died of a mystery infectious disease in Johannesburg, the health department announced yester day.

The calm way South Africa handled recent political change proves it is a mature democracy, said Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya in Pretoria on Sunday.

The ANC has started tightening the leash on its wild child Julius Malema, with some senior members of the ruling party calling him "an embarrassment". But even the most vociferous and fiercest of his critics ...

By Thabiso Thakali Anna Mussode dreaded returning to the Makause informal settlement near Primrose, Germiston, from which she fled with her children four months ago at the height of the xenophobic violence.

One of Sioux City's major intersections has been shut down this afternoon because of a water main break.

Anti Apartheid activist, Allan Boesak is expected to resign from all his positions in the Uniting Reformed Church, the SABC reported on Saturday.

By Siyabonga Mkhwanazi, Chiara Carter, Xolani Mbanjwa and Sapa There is turmoil in several provincial governments, with the ANC's political tsunami now up-ending more premiers.

By Angela Quintal Former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota has given the clearest hint yet that he might divorce the ANC, an organisation which he no longer recognised and whose practices he believed had become ...

Former president Thabo Mbeki has agreed to resume his mediation in neighbouring Zimbabwe's political crisis, a spokesperson for government in Pretoria said Friday.

SA COMMUNIST Party leader Chris Hani's killer, Clive Derby-Lewis, would have been a free man on October 15 following the recommendation of the parole board, his attorney said yesterday.

South Africa will stick to its ambitious plan to put 30 per cent of farmland in black hands by 2014, even though it is lagging way behind target, a senior government official said on Wednesday.

Johannesburg mayor Amos Masondo unveiled a multi-million public transport facility opposite the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto on Thursday.

South Africaa s new health minister Barbara Hogan vowed on Thursday to make Aids a top priority, after years of controversy over her predecessora s unconventional support for treatments like beetroot and ...

Four men arrested for possession of fraudulent documents in Rustenburg and Pretoria will appear in the Rustenburg magistrate's court on Friday, North West police said.

Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union members will march in Johannesburg today to demand the removal of Gauteng police Commissioner Perumal Naidoo.

The first time I saw Thabo Mbeki, soon after his return from exile in 1990, I thought: "What an impressive, intelligent, cultured man." The second time I thought, "What an oddball." Eighteen years on, having ...

Five Nigerian men, a Nigerian woman and a South African man appeared in the Johannesburg magistrate's court on Tuesday after allegedly kidnapping a Japanese man and holding him for ransom.

A National Intelligence Agency operative who allegedly leaked a classified document containing state secrets will go on trial in February next year.