Domestic

 Around 500 inmates from Groenpunt prison outside Deneysville in the Free State will be moved to other correctional service centres. Correctional services' Grace Molatedi says some 350 prisoners have been moved so far and the rest will be

The Automobile Association of South Africa said that a cohesive government strategy is needed to reduce the high death toll on the country's roads. AA spokesperson Gary Ronald said that the "Decade of Action"-programme was launched in

Police fired rubber bullets to repel hundreds of rock-throwing farm workers during a strike for higher wages at De Doorns on Thursday, during a second day of violence in the normally calm and picturesque wine lands. Police and farmworkers fought

A motorist who raced away while a policeman was in his car searching for drugs, killed them both when he crashed in Rosebank, Johannesburg, during a high speed chase on Thursday morning. Police spokesperson, Lieutenant-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini

Three hikers had a narrow escape along the Garden Route on Thursday morning, when they were swept out to sea at the Bloukrans River Mouth. They were brought ashore in a dramatic helicopter rescue. Plettenberg Bay NSRI station commander Deon

 The mining and manufacturing sector lost 15,000 jobs in December, while overall employment increased by a marginal 0.8%, according to the Adcorp Employment Index, which was released on Thursday. The actual overall number of jobs grew by 12

 Two people died on Thursday when a light aircraft crashed while approaching to land at a private airfield near Klipheuwel in the Western Cape. ER24 spokesperson Vanessa Jackson says the aircraft caught alight after it crash landed. She

 The Road Traffic Management Corporation has just released the latest figures for the festive season road death toll. It says 1,465 people died on the roads. This figure is for the period from the 1st of December to the 8th of January

The hunger strike initiated by inmates at the Groenpunt maximum prison in Deneysville, where 50 inmates and 7 warders were injured during riots on Monday, has ended. The prisoners had been refusing to eat since citing various complaints