There is "merit" in carrying out some fracking for shale gas in the Karoo, environmental affairs director-general Nosipho Ngcaba says.
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.
FF+ leader Pieter Mulder gave the hornet’s nest on land ownership a poke when he said "bantu-speakers" had no historical claim to 40% of the country.
The international board members of the SKA radio telescope will meet on April 4 to decide whether the site will be built in SA or in Australia.
President Jacob Zuma has urged delegates at the UN climate summit in Durban to work for an outcome that was "fair and credible".
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.
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.
It will take trillions of dollars but the world can get all the energy it needs from wind, water, solar and geothermal sources by 2050, says the WWF.
Ahead of the opening of Parliament, the ongoing power war between Cope co-founders Mosiuoa Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa has caused confusion.
The shocking state of SA’s sewage plants was revealed in the long-awaited Green Drop Report released by Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica.
Americans appear set to be by far the most numerous group of foreign fans coming to South Africa for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
A global action plan is urgently needed to resolve the world’s growing water and sanitation crisis, and South Africa can help establish one, says the United Nations Development…
