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South African motorists will have to fork out an additional 88 cents for a litre of petrol from tomorrow (Wednesday, 6 April) the Department of Energy has announced.

Nobody seems to be able to take the blame for the Nkandla scandal. While President Jacob Zuma said last week he did not know taxpayers’  money was spent on his private Nkandla homestead, both the speaker of parliament and the chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) said they...

The President’s men are not happy with allegations by EFF leader Julius Malema that Pres. Jacob Zuma visited the United Arab Emirates to drop off R6bn belonging to the Guptas.

Kak en betaal - that's what SA president Jacob Zuma needs to do now that the ConCourt has - eventually - forced him to "Pay Back The Money". So - National Treasury is to set up a team as part of efforts to execute the Constitutional Court judgment stating that...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — The Zimbabwean department of Justice will ask for the extradition of James Walter Palmer, an American dentist who killed a well-known lion called Cecil, after a judge ruled the doctor should spend at least 24 hour with four ‘hungry’ lions in an enclosure.

Third time's a charm - and this year is the third edition of the A.K.A. Afrikaans Culture Festival Amsterdam (Afrikaanse Kultuurfees Amsterdam).

Somebody made some quick bucks out of SA Tourism, but it’s not South Africa. In fact South Africa’s tax payers coughed up R422 million to fund SA Tourism’s lush overseas office expenses.

Just when you thought that between the Guptas and the Zumas things cannot get any worse, the reality hits that the petrol price - and food prices - are going to bite you in the backside.

The ANC’s decision to meet with the Guptas – led by President Jacob Zuma himself – proves that the ruling party does not give a donkey’s ass about fighting corruption. If anything, this is further proof that the ANC and their puppet master, the Zumster himself, are merely different sides...

There has been methodical infringement of language, cultural and minority rights in South Africa during the past few years, minority rights movement AfriForum says after analysing its 2015 Civil Rights Index. The implementation of affirmative action by government is one of the largest culprits.

There are many reasons why we need to cry for our beloved South Africa, but below is one of the most important. Despite all the facts to the contrary, this is what the ANC NEC has to say about the relationship between president Jacob Zuma and his rich buddies, the...

Having survived a weekend where the ANC National Executive Committee could have taken him to task for being in bed with the Gupta family, South Africa president Jacob Zuma used Human Rights Day to speak out against racism a day later.

If the Gupta fokop is not “officially on the agenda” of the high-level ANC National Executive Committee meeting which started in Pretoria on Friday, then either someone is lying or the ANC top brass are as thick as Zuma’s Nkandla chicken booth.

The rest of South Africa might be going for the dogs with interest rate hikes, families called Gupta running the country and the president single-handedly trying to ruin the value of the rand, but at least SA Rugby is as strong as Russia used to be.

R4.26 million of liquid crystal methamphetamine (crystal meth) has been seized at OR Tambo International Airport by the South African Revenue Service (SARS). One fire-arm has also been found.

The leadership of Guptastan kicked opposition leader Mmusi Maimane out of the National Assembly after he challenged a claim by President Jacob Zuma that he fired former Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene because of the decline of the rand.

So Jacob Zuma’s rich buddies are the recruitment agents for the South African Cabinet’s top jobs.

While South Africa is waiting for SAFA president Danny Jordaan to answer Fifa 2010 World Cup ‘bribe’ allegations, the DA says it will intensify it’s efforts to have top SAFA officials investigated, and charged iff necessary.

South African president Jacob Zuma and his cabinet could face contempt of court charges because of their handling of the Omar Al-Bashir debacle last year.

Love your neighbour - and grow. That’s what South Africa’s Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Mzwandile Masina is suggesting - saying South Africa and Zimbabwe must work together to pursue their national interests, especially in the area of trade.

More than 7,000 people were detained in South African prisons last hear merely because they are too poor to post bail.

So the democratic South Africa’s special police force acts like the old apartheid security police? Well, we did not say it, the Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan (pictured above), is the one saying it.

Shocking? Yet, this is the reality. In parts of Africa up to 75% of people have never heard of the internet.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has come out in support, and say they can prove, rumours that the inflection Guptas family offered Deputy Minister of Finance, Mcebisi Jonas, the job of Finance Minister mere weeks weeks before Nhlahla Nene was fired by President Jacob Zuma.

He’s been denied bail over and over but now Port Elizabeth “businessman” Christopher Panayiotou says there is new fact that should allow him to go home.

South Africa’s own official health staff do not even test themselves for HIV.

South Africa’s form Communist Party leader Chris Hani’s assassin will reportedly be released from prison in a couple of weeks. But not many people are happy.

Non-government institutions such as the media and civil society together with the public are making the big difference in the fight against corruption in South Africa.

A Zion Christian Church follower who believed he was filled with the Holy Spirit - but it could have been ‘sprits’ of a different nature - when he unwisely decided to ‘challenge’ lions in the Kruger National Park has made a lucky escape.

South Africa’s business tycoon brothers - the Guptas - should appear before Parliament to explain if they have influence over President Jacob Zuma.

Hate for foreigners and gender-based violence in South Africa should be investigated from the very highest level, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says in their application to the United Nation's  Human Rights Committee (UNHRC).