A bodyguard of Deputy President Jacob Zuma has been arrested and charged for allegedly making racial slurs and for assaulting and
opening fire on colleagues while in a drunken state at the Pinelands police barracks in Cape Town on Saturday night.
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A two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father at their Temba home in Bekkersdal, Westonaria on around 8:45 on Sunday, West Rand police reported on Monday.
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Six men were arrested on Friday night in Louisvale, Upington after a nine-month old baby was raped and indecently assaulted, Northern Cape police said.
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Everybody’s favourite electronic-voiced pop culture celebrities join in a marvellous display of minimalist digital theatre.
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New laboratory tests have called into question virtually the entire South African olive oil industry, as well as the Heart Foundation’s stamp of approval.
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A man who allegedly torched five houses after failing to woo a Northern Province woman with his Gauteng charms, appeared in court on Monday for the third time.
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Twice as much fun as a barrel of monkeys, less than half the mess, it’s the Modern Humorist’s Jim Morrison Simulatron.
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As part of its American Memory project, the US Library of Congress has released its material related to Woody Guthrie.
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A young doctor fears for her life after she reported the head of orthopaedics at Sebokeng Hospital and his assistant to the Health Professions Council (HPC) for gross malpractice.
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Seven men charged in connection with terror attacks in western South Africa escaped from a courthouse holding cell Thursday, police said. Four were captured but three others remained at large.
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Authorities arrested a top lawmaker today on corruption charges stemming from an influence-peddling scandal that has come to symbolize poor South Africans’ growing disillusionment with the government after seven years of black-majority rule.
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More than 100,000 census officials, who will be visiting South African households this week, have been issued with condoms. The Free State census manager, Owen Thothela, said: ‘The condoms are for use in their personal time.’ However, he also conceded that staff might as well be protected in case they were led into temptation at work. The health department said that the move was part of the country’s AIDS awareness programme. Opposition MPs, however, expressed concern that staff may be encouraged to forget their duties.
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Since the first Nobel Prize in 1901, official Nobel Lectures have been delivered by the Literature Laureates on the occasion of the Nobel Prize ceremonies held in Stockholm. Recordings have been made from some of them, or in some cases, of the acceptance speeches presented during the Nobel Banquet. Here, you can listen to more than thirty prize winners through recordings dating from 1937 and onward.
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ANC rebel Andrew Feinstein has named five people, among them those hinted at by a source close to the arms probe, whom he believes should be investigated immediately for their roles in the government’s multi-billion rand arms procurement programme.
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A six-year-old boy was beaten to death and his body then burnt while on his way to a shop at Sundumbili in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday night, police said on Friday. Captain Vishnu Naidoo said Thandokwakhe Manguele was sent to the shop by his grandmother when a 22-year-old man allegedly beat him with a stick and then burnt his body. The man was arrested and will appear in the Sundumbili Magistrate’s Court on Monday. In another incident on Thursday, a 65-year-old woman was shot dead at the Magogo area of Nqutu in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Kakiwe Mkhize was walking to a shop when three men shot her in the neck and face. The motive for the murder is unknown. Also on Thursday in northern KwaZulu-Natal, Mthethowakhe Gwala was shot dead in Umsunduzi. He was shot in the back with a 9mm pistol. No arrests were made.
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