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The chairperson of Parliament’s portfolio committee on police has questioned the integrity and competence of South African Police Service management.
One big drought in the Vaal River catchment area over the next eight years could jeopardise the region’s agricultural and industrial output.
The African Ministers’ Council says a failure to invest in water infrastructure is holding back the economies of many sub-Saharan countries.
The rate of new HIV infections continues to outpace prevention efforts, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Thursday.
Saccawu said on Wednesday while they support foreign investment in South Africa, the Walmart-Massmart merge could cost the country a number of jobs.
Former apartheid-era defence minister Magnus Malan died at the age of 81 on Monday morning, his family said.
The National Lottery Board and the National Development Agency, tasked with distributing funds to poverty-relief organisations, are failing.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Wednesday passed wide-ranging criticisms of President Jacob Zuma and his administration.
Americans appear set to be by far the most numerous group of foreign fans coming to South Africa for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
Once they lived here in their thousands, but now only a handful of Afrikaans-speaking Boers remain in the town of Comodoro Rivadavia in Argentina.
Parliamentarians bade farewell to former chief justice Pius Langa on Wednesday, simultaneously welcoming his successor, Sandile Ngcobo.
Cabinet ran its climate change colours up the mast on Thursday, declaring SA would not agree to any targets at the UN climate change conference.
New Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda has treated himself to a pair of German luxury cars, one to use in Pretoria and the other in Cape Town.
Fikile Mbalula on Wednesday announced details of a community programme which, if taken literally, aims to send criminals running for the toilet.
The former ANC-run Western Cape administration approved transfer of land to the national government the day before the April 22 elections.
The tap water in some small South African towns may not be fit to drink, a senior Department of Water Affairs official said on Monday.
If Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will not step down voluntarily he should be removed by force, said senior Cope member Philip Dexter on Tuesday.
Minister of Environmental Affairs Marthinus van Schalkwyk says his department is planning ”further steps” to stem the poaching of marine resources.
South Africa’s transition to a low-carbon economy to combat global warming will be marked by ambitious and mandatory energy-efficiency targets.
A naval expert is ”not overly optimistic” about law-enforcement agencies making SA’s maritime borders safe from terror attacks during the World Cup.
