Domestic

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate says it has arrested eight policemen in connection with the death of taxi driver, Mido Macia. He died in police custody at the Daveyton Police Station on Tuesday after being cuffed and dragged

 The Department of Energy has announced a massive hike in the price of fuel. From next Wednesday motorists will pay 81 cents a litre more for all grades of petrol. Diesel goes up by just over 58 cents a litre while paraffin at wholesale

 Police commissioner, general Rhia Phiyega, has suspended the station commissioner of the Daveyton police as well as eight police members involved in a police brutality scandal. Their suspensions come in the wake of the death of taxi driver

 Research into more South African meat products, have highlighted additional concerns around what people eat. Scientists from the University of the Western Cape say most of the country's biltong products are labelled incorrectly. DNA test

 The government is planning to designate another 15 sites as national key points, in terms of legislation carried over from the apartheid era. The Cape Times reports that the 2013 police budget increases the number of national key points

 The Council for the Advancement of the SA Constitution says the death of a minibus taxi driver, allegedly at the hands of the police, shows that no lessons have been learned from Marikana. Casac chairman Sipho Pityana said the behaviour of

Trade union federation Cosatu has welcomed the decision by the National Energy Regulator to slash Eskom's tariff request by 50%. Nersa effectively rejected Eskom's request for a 16% a year tariff hike, announcing today that it had approved an

 The Independent Police Investigative Directorate says it has opened a murder investigation after a taxi driver died in police detention. Police commissioner, general Rhia Phiyega, says the death of Mido Macia in Daveyton, Soweto, on

 The National Consumer Commission will probe the incorrect labelling of meat products, Acting government spokesperson, Phumla Williams, made the announcement on Thursday following cabinet's fortnightly meeting. She says this matter may