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Only 3% of Grade 9 learners achieved 50 % for mathematics, and the average for literacy in their home languages was only 48%.

Two women drowned around Woody Cape, east of Port Elizabeth on Thursday night. The National Sea Rescue Institute says a rescue craft was in the area, as they are assisting in the PE to East London surf-ski challenge that started at Bluewater Bay on Thursday morning, and ended at Woody...

A criminal charge of perjury has been laid with the South African Police Service against SABC Chairperson Ellen Tshabalala. 

A group of experts have said the Gauteng Province in South Africa should scrap its controversial e-tolling system.

On 23 November 50 year old Roseline Appolis was assaulted by police as you can see in the video. She was allegedly trying to help break up a fight after her daughter was slapped by the police.

The entire South Africa will commemorate first anniversary of the passing if Madiba on 5 December - the day last year when the struggle icon passed on at his Houghton Estate home in Johannesburg.

They are the curse of road users in South Africa but after this breakthrough they may be something of the past.

The events in the the video followed after the petrol attendant asked a biker not to smoke. They first cussed at him calling him a (K word) and calling him a monkey then more cars with people in arrived.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has conducted a comprehensive assessment of President Zuma’s performance since the May elections and has come to the conclusion that this is the worst performance yet by the President. And for that matter by any of South Africa’s post-Apartheid presidents.

This video shows just how quickly an accident can happen and other drivers decisions can threaten your life and there is nothing you can do to prevent it.

The tendency for South African police members to manhandle law-abiding citizens of the country is starting be become commonplace.

Labour union Solidarity has requested Air Traffic and Navigation Systems (ATNS) to disclose details of its reporting of a near-miss incident at OR Tambo International Airport to the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA). This comes after Solidarity was unable to obtain reference to the incident in SACAA public records.

The plant is located on the closure dam Afsluitdijk, the Netherlands and you will be surprised what renewable energy source they are using as a World's First.

The ANC seem to have short memories and Baleke Mbete, Speaker of the National Assembly, in particular, a lapse of fact retention.

A South African man allegedly hid heroin worth R13 million into the bottoms of three crates he used to freight cats into the UK.

Conrad Koch, the man behind puppet Chester Missing, says he wants to be able to continue commenting on politics and privilege in South Africa.

The Auditor General told South Africa’s parliament that the Western Cape is by far the best-governed province in South Africa.

A tornado was caught on video, not in America but in South Africa of all places between Utrecht and Vryheid in Kwazulu Natal.

Just like with the Waterkloof Four* - money talks, and with so many corrupt prison officials around it is bound to buy you special privileges behind bars.

This is how you get promoted in South Africa. You openly become a trouble maker with an atrocious track record while showing deep respect for the ruling African National Criminal (ANC) party and then you climb the ladder of success.

Move aside Cape Town because it's Johannesburg's turn in the spotlight after Jozi was named one of the most inspiring cities in the world.

Some real good news from South Africa for a change – a success story of note with the wind farm at Jeffreys Bay on South Africa’s Eastern Cape coast, well, blowing everyone’s expectations away.

At South Africa’s power ‘utility’ Eskom – more popularly called Eks-dom (Afrikaans for ‘I am stupid’) – there is a coal storage silo at Majuba power station with a visible two-metre-long crack.

South Africa’s provincial governments are not only cash strapped, they also spend much more than they receive from national government or make in revenues. On top is this they spend the money on merely employing and paying people/cronies/buddies and not delivering services.

Now that’s the Oscar way to deal with it. A notorious most wanted car hijacker has been shot dead by a motorist who witnessed him trying to hijack another car.

Will CCTV footage of a bakkie accident shock you into road safety?

The once proud home of Eastern Province Rugby – Telkom Park in Port Elizabeth – has now been vandalised to such an extent that the best way forward is to redevelop it into a retail, residential, office and tourism/leisure/entertainment area, the Mandela Bay Development Agency suggests in a proposals to...

Leaving school in the new South Africa with a Matric qualification is not worth much anymore because the quality of education has gone bananas. Even a Ministerial Task Team says so in its latest report about the National Senior Certificate (NSC). But while the world seems to agree, the Department...

After yet another round of load shedding playing havoc with South Africa's economy, the Democratic Alliance has demanded that public enterprises minister Lynne Brown disclose all maintenance records for the silos at the Majuba power station.

The airline whose policy it is not to recruit white male cadet pilots, has opted to appoint a white male as acting CEO while its current CEO Monwabisi Kalawe is suspended.

The implosion – or splitting apart – of the tripartite alliance (ANC, SA Communist Party & COSATU trade union federation) has been predicted even before the New South Africa was born. Some clever dicks – think political analysts like Lester Venter – predicted this would happen even before Nelson Mandela...