Domestic

  A Pretoria schoolboy's ear was sliced off with a machete during a violent attack by a rival school gang earlier this week. Three others were badly injured. The Star reports that the gang, armed with axes, pangas, and knives arrived at

 Mineral Resources Minister, Susan Shabangu, says petroleum exploration and exploitation, including shale gas, will contribute significantly to the economy. Shabangu was speaking on the outcomes of Cabinet's regular fortnightly meeting in

 The Independent Electoral Commission says its determined to attain record voter turnout in next year's elections. Chairperson, Pansy Tlakula said at the 2014 elections media launch in Midrand on Wednesday, that the IEC was preparing itself

 The National Prosecuting Authority says four men, accused of beating a rugby fan to death, will stand trial in March next year. The four made a brief appearance in the Durban Magistrate's Court on Monday. The NPA's Natasha Ramkisson says

 A Malawi soldier has drowned and two SANDF members are missing when a night-time sea exercise went awry. An SANDF statement says the incident happened earlier this week during an exercise by special forces from Southern African Development

  A disciplinary hearing will be held on Tuesday for the 14-year-old Johannesburg schoolboy who allegedly punched his teacher at the Jim Fouche Primary School in Gauteng. The boy allegedly punched 41 year-old Zascia Hakkesteeg last week

 A small group of people staged a protest on Tuesday outside the Pinetown Magistrate's Court in support of the Swazi truck driver accused of murdering 22 people in a crash. The group of mostly women held posters that read "Justice for

 Transport Minister Dipuo Peters says the billboards erected along Johannesburg's highways next to e-toll gantries are the work of cowards. Speaking in Midrand on Monday morning, Peters said those responsible for the billboards do not have

 Former police chief and convicted criminal Jackie Selebi, who was released on medical parole in 2012 in a reportedly critically ill state, was photographed shopping in Pretoria on Sunday. The photo was published in Beeld and its sister