Domestic

 The education department has placed a Soweto primary school teacher on a precautionary suspension following allegations that he sexually abused a pupil. The teacher, who is based at a Pimville school, is facing an internal disciplinary

 An application to have the ANC Youth League liquidated and the organisation's bank accounts frozen, has been lodged with the Johannesburg High Court. According to court papers, close corporation Z2 Presentations claims that the league owes

 Emergency officials are monitoring the situation on Table Mountain, after a fire broke-out in Table Mountain National Park in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze which destroyed more than a

 Cosatu says the strike by farmworkers in the Western Cape is over. Cosatu provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich said in a statement on Tuesday night that an agreement put forward by Agri SA contains the basis of the accord that ends the

ANC secretary-general, Gwede Mantashe, is predicting that the party's elective conference in Manguang this month will go off smoothly. He was speaking at a media briefing on Tuesday following the ANC's national executive committee meeting

There have been no reports of major violence linked to farmworkers' protests in the Western Cape. Agri Wes-Cape says the only incident they have heard of so far happened in Groendal, Franschhoek, where a group of people were throwing stones at a

 The government's Jobs Fund has reportedly spent R3b since its launch in 2011 to create 745 jobs at a cost of R4m a job. The fund has been set up to spend R9b over 3 years to create 150 000 jobs, and is managed by the Development Bank of

Farmworkers began gathering across the Boland in the Western Cape on Tuesday morning to resume their strike over labour issues. Farmworkers' Strike Coalition spokesperson Mario Wanza says workers have already formed a group in Ceres, Citrusdal

 A Durban IT specialist has appeared in court for making a false claim to the police that he had been hijacked. Fifty-two-year-old Leon van Rensburg sparked a large scale police hunt after he sent his daughter an SMS saying he had been