Domestic

CAPE TOWN, June 24 (ANA) – President Jacob Zuma has declared August 3, when the country goes to the polls for municipal elections, a public holiday, the presidency said on Friday."The purpose is to enable all South Africans who are eligible to vote

CAPE TOWN, June 24 (ANA) – South Africa’s financial system was resilient and would be able to deal with any shocks arising from Britain’s exit from the European Union, President Jacob Zuma’s office said on Friday."Our banks and financial

Johannesburg, 23 June 2016 (ANA) – The Economic Freedom Fighters Students Command (EFFSC) on Thursday welcomed the decision by the University of Pretoria (UP) to adopt a new language policy which would phase out Afrikaans as a medium of instructions

JOHANNESBURG, June 23 (ANA) – The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Thursday said it would consult its members on an improved wage increase offer of 7 percent tabled by Eskom.This comes after the union rejected an earlier wage offer of 5.75

JOHANNESBURG, June 23 (ANA) – Photographs that were circulating on social media and published in a daily newspaper that suggest police officers took part in the looting of shops in Tshwane townships "were misleading and untrue", the SA Police

The exclusive ITV Oscar Pistorius interview will be broadcast in South Africa, DSTV sports channel SuperSport said on Wednesday.The United Kingdom based ITV was the only television broadcaster to get access to the fallen 29-year-old athletics star

Eskom on Tuesday night said that a 33000 voltage transformer breaker at the Mapopane East electricity substation had tripped at around 6pm, plunging the volatile township in the City of Tshwane, Pretoria, into darkness.The power utility said this

CAPE TOWN, June 25 (ANA) – South Africans living and working in Pretoria should continue with business as usual as government was "responding adequately to the situation".That was the word from cabinet ministers forming part of government’s justice

The man accused of raping at least three University of Cape Town (UCT) students is expected to face additional counts of rape.The alleged serial rapist appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.The 35-year-old suspect – whose multiple