A scientific mega-project to unlock cosmic conundrums was given a boost, when the MeerKAT radio telescope was inaugurated in Carnarvon.
South Africa will speed up visa processes and lure conferences in a bid to boost foreign arrivals by 40 percent, says Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom.
Cape Town expects a 13 percent jump in tourist arrivals this year to 1. 77 million, a rare bright spot in an economy that slid into recession in March.
The Competition Commission has granted Barclays Africa conditional immunity from prosecution in return for its continuing co-operation in the rand currency trading ...
South Africa's Eskom will increase its capital expenditure by 44 percent to R324 billion ($21 billion) over the next five years to build new power stations, the ...
President Jacob Zuma will meet with university roleplayers and student leaders today over tuition fees.
Poachers trek over a snake-infested ridge, carrying heavy scuba-diving gear before reaching their destination.
African smartphone users will soon have an alternative means to get round the power shortages.
The labour unrest at Anglo American Platinum’s Rustenburg mines has spread to three more of its operations.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says HIV prevention will be prioritised as part of a new national plan.
An aircraft was blown to smithereens near Johannesburg's airport in 1988, and while it is unlikely that this could happen again, it is disconcerting to know that ...
Recommendations to conserve the great white shark in the Cape's False Bay basin while offering protection to bathers are at an advanced stage, according to shark ...
"Our heritage is unique and precious and it cannot be renewed" reads part of the preamble to South Africa's heritage legislation, yet many public bodies don't know ...
South Africa is poised to sign a comprehensive anti-bribery pact with the economic thinktank of the world's top trading nations in an attempt increase international ...
An anti-rape strategy has been formulated and recently signed into effect by community safety MEC Leonard Ramatlakane to combat perceptions of South Africa as the ...
Pan Africanist Congress leader Motsoko Pheko has been warned in court that he has until the end of April to account for missing parliamentary travel vouchers or ...
A national HIV prevalence survey will be undertaken in prisons to determine the extent to which the HIV and Aids epidemic has affected the 240 jails in South Africa, ...
The "godmother" of South Africa's first commissioned patrol corvette, first lady Zanele Mbeki, attended the official handover of the SAS Amatola in Simon's Town, ...
A Cape Town hairdresser cried as she told the Wynberg magistrate's court that she had been raped repeatedly in a drug-fuelled assault by two men - an incident the ...
An attorney has described as "bizarre" South African liaibility provisions in law which favour big business rather than consumers of genetically modified organisms. ...
The World Health Organisation has urged South Africa to speed up the rollout of anti-retroviral drugs to HIV and Aids sufferers.
Theoretically they enjoy all the rights as everybody else, but the four million deaf South Africans have not tasted the fruits of democracy yet, says DeafSA.
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour has paid a visit to Pollsmoor Prison, where three inmates died in a fire last week.
A hemp growing project which offers hope to small farmers in the poverty stricken Eastern Cape could be derailed because hemp is lumped together with dagga.
After successfully campaigning to have an "immoral" deodorant advert banned from television because it was too risque, a Christian lobby group has now set its sights ...