Imagine you could fly to Cape Town, jump on a train to Cairo in Egypt, and then fly home. While standing on a bridge crossing the Zambezi River, and about to jump off, Riaan Manser thought about reimagining that old dream.
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has delivered a Christmas message, warning that corruption, inequality, and growing disillusionment with democracy are deepening despair in South Africa and across the world.
South Africa’s decision to modify a plan to break up its state-owned power utility into three separate entities is encountering opposition from creditors and foreign government funders.
A new video has surfaced showing Bitou Municipality Deputy Mayor Nokuzola Kolwapi allegedly handing a firearm to her bodyguard after discharging it during a cultural celebration over the weekend.
At the time of his death, Hlongwa was facing corruption charges linked to a Special Investigating Unit report that implicated him in alleged fraudulent and corrupt transactions worth R1.2-billion in the provincial health department during his tenure as MEC.
Alicia Koekemoer and her family from Algoa Park have endured a harrowing struggle with her municipality over a malfunctioning sewerage system that has exposed them to health risks, particularly after her husband’s cancer diagnosis. After more than a year of pleas, repairs have finally begun, but the emotional toll of living with raw sewage outside their home has been immense.
The attempt to flee the law by a third suspect in the murder of prosecutor Tracy Brown has been thwarted thanks to a special operation and collaboration between the Eastern Cape and Free State Hawks.
In Umlazi, just outside Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, is a high school that has been operating for nearly 60 years and is known as one of the largest in the country by student population.
A family trust linked to South African tycoon Koos Bekker sold 2.5 billion rand ($150 million) of Naspers shares to finance the construction of hotels in South Africa, the UK and Italy.