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It seems Eskom is protesting a tad too much after civil action group Outa has appealed to South Africans to comment on nuclear procurement plans, which the group says Eskom tried to sneak past the public.

The South Gauteng High Court will this morning hear the National Prosecuting Authority’s application for leave to appeal the Oscar Pistorius sentencing.

Government is trying to slip highly dodgy nuclear power plant deals past the public but - although your time is running out fast - you still have a chance to say your say.

South Africa, together with Egypt and Nigeria, has a full third of Africa’s total cell phone subscriber base. According to a report by the mother body representing the interests of mobile operators worldwide, the Groupe Spécial Mobile Association (GSMA), there were 557 million unique mobile subscribers across Africa at the...

Another black empowerment deal worth billions will be rolled out in South Africa, and this time the guys with the deep pockets are MTN.

What? The SABC big boss wants to pay his controversial COO Hlaudi Motsoenen a bonus? Wena man! He should fire the mamparra!

The language rights of Afrikaans students at the University of the Free State (UFS) will be defended with any legal action that may me required, AfriForum has warned.

The massive automotive investment by Beijing Automobile International Corporation (BAIC) of R11 billion at the Coega Industrial Development Zone in Nelson Mandela Bay has been welcomed by Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber.

Tswana will be the capital of job creation in South Africa. This message came from the new mayor of Tswane, the Democratic Alliance’s Solly Msimanga, who was today elected the Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane. Msimanga said in his acceptance speech as the capital’s new leader that less...

The South African hotel industry has become a lucrative venture for foreign hotel investors because of the devaluation of the South African rand. Overall Africa’s hotel industry has a larger potential for growth than the rest of the world, opening up a great future for hoteliers and investors, according to...

If Police Minister Nathi Nhleko continues to promote and appoint police officers without taking merit into account, the chain of events that led to the Marikana massacre could easily happen again, minority rights group AfriForum has warned.

A full-scale parliamentary inquiry into the institutional rot at the SABC was necessary and urgent.

Wayde van Niekerk was fast from the start... he was born 11 weeks early, says South African's gold medallist’s mum. Here is her story.

Emotions ran high at the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination when South Africa’s policy on affirmative action came under the spotlight following the presentation Solidarity had made to the committee earlier this week.

If there is one really good reason why the DA kicked Danny Jordaan’s sorry backside in last week’s local government elections in Nelson Mandela Bay it is for the new rulers to prevent the ANC from keeping dolphins in captivity.

R104.6 million, with interest! That’s what the South African Ass-ways Airlines (SAA) must pay Nationwide Airlines for misconduct after a Johannesburg High Court ruling.

The desperate lies by the ANC that the DA was horse-trading control of metros in coalition talks are the last kicks of a dying horse, desperate to cling onto power.

Controversial daddy’s boy and failed Springbok flank, Luke - better known as ‘Puke’ - Watson’s rugby career is finally over. And not a day too soon.

The EFF and DA have found common ground and decided to work together to rid South Africa of a corrupt ANC.

Dear Danny Boy, what were you thinking when you blamed the DA for ‘apartheid styled’ tactics in electioneering and said the world’s most respected market research company IPSOS were “not scientific”?

History will remember the local government elections in South Africa of 2016 as a tipping point towards positive change. It will be remembered as the moment that the ANC lost its foothold as the dominant party, and the DA emerged as a serious contender to win a national election.

The ANC will loose its national majority as early as 2019.

Growth in support for the DA across South Africa as early results come into the IEC Results Operation Centre, bodes well for the DA’s electoral outcomes.

It is clear that there are no bounds to the extent that the SAA board and Chairperson, Dudu Myeni, will go to enrich connected ANC cronies at the expense of the South African taxpayer. Delinquent SAA directors continue to make reckless trading decisions. The reported refusal of Myeni and her...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has thrown in the towel with regards to its illegal and controversial affirmative action employment policies.

Local government election ballot papers have already been stolen on the eve of elections next Wednesday. This can only mean one thing - election corruption!

The latest unemployment numbers for the second quarter of 2016 have just been released by the Statistician-General, and it paints a very grim picture for the future of our country. Together with a zero percent growth predicted for South Africa’s economy unemployment figures are the wake-up call South Africans need...

In a final victory over the SABC’s censorship policy, the 'public' broadcaster finally conceded to allow the four journalists, who had been dismissed, to return to work. This comes after the SABC on Wednesday showed the door to the four dismissed journalists when they had arrived for work in accordance...

You don’t get the chance to see this everyday but these fishermen off the coast of Venice in Louisiana, USA, captured this unusual occurrence of a tiger shark and a hammerhead shark in a fight to the death.

This is not for sensitive viewers. Be warned. Two VIDEOS show the moment two pit bull terriers get hold of an alleged burglar in the yard of a house on Cape Town’s not so affluent Cape Flats.

Cricket South Africa (CSA) is to introduce race quotas at national team level.