Pretoria, South Africa News

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

Derby-Lewis was convicted of conspiracy to kill South African Communist Party general secretary Chris Hani by providing the gun Polish immigrant Janusz Walus used to kill him in the driveway of his Boksburg, East Rand, home on April 10 1993.

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

Pretoria Cabinet has thanked South Africans and the world for participating in this year's Nelson Mandela Day, on 18 July.

BATTLE SCARRED: A scene from Bloody Beans, a film by Algerian writer and director Narimane Mari, screened at the Durban International Film Festival.

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

A teenage girl has made a passionate plea to a North Gauteng High Court judge not to force her to go back to an elite Afrikaans school in Pretoria as she hates it.

Kweku Ananse - The Spider. Children's theatre. Stories of the spider and the stories he tells.

I find it very interesting, having moved to Cape Town, not just to avoid E-Tolls, that when I received my first ever E-Toll bill it is issued by the "Violations Processing Centre".

The core inflation rate, which excludes food, non-alcoholic beverages, gasoline and electricity costs, rose to 5.6% in June from 5.5% in the previous month.

FIFA says its security director Ralf Mutschke will travel to Sierra Leone to help the case and an education program to tackle match-fixing.

The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria could not hear a case against SANDF officials on Tuesday because the SA National Defence Union did not file court papers.

Members of an Afrikaner group who call themselves the Boer-Afrikaner Volksraad view forthcoming talks with the government as a step closer to their "right for self-determination for our own people in a peaceful way".

A GOOD YEAR: Fine artist Happy Dhlame poses with a bottle of the limited edition wine that features his art.

President Jacob Zuma's decision to send former deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad as his envoy to the Middle East to address the Gaza crisis has been welcomed, but with reservations about what he can achieve.

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.

Thomas Cullinan would get out of bed and stand on his balcony and gaze all the way to the Magaliesberg.

As part of its continued expansion into Africa, Getmapping has acquired Promap Civil Engineering Surveys Ltd, based in Pretoria.

IT WAS a trek from the top to the bottom of the South American continent followed by a five-year stay in Argentina that cost Nikki Froneman her heart.

THE ARGENTINIAN Cultural Week running until July 26 is a stunning prelude to a programme of artistic collaboration between Argentina and South Africa.