Domestic

The price of all grades of petrol will rise by 22 cents a litre on Wednesday next week, the energy department said on Friday. The price of diesel with a 0.05 percent sulphur content would increase by 14.62 cents a litre, and that with a 0.005

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is bemoaning a media report that she knew about the looming Limpopo textbook saga last year. Her spokeswoman Hope Mokgatlhe said in a statement that the article was misleading and creates the impression

Correctional services says the man accused of raping a 94-year-old KwaZulu-Natal woman after being released under a special remission had been serving a theft sentence. Chief deputy commissioner for incarceration and corrections James Smalberger

 President Jacob Zuma has approved a 5.5% salary increase for top public servants. The presidency announced the decision on Thursday after the Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers presented its recommendation

Boeremag leader Mike du Toit was found guilty of treason in the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday. Judge Eben Jordaan said on Thursday Du Toit played a leading role in a plot to violently overthrow the African National Congress-led government

The Western Cape Department of Community Safety has launched a campaign to reward good policing and to shame the bad apples. The province's Reward A Cop - Report A Cop campaign was lauched in conjunction with the Institute for Security Studies

Local government sector wage negotiations have been concluded. An agreement is now in place between the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union, the South African Municipal Workers Union and the South African Local Government Association

 A 22-year-old woman suffering from depression held her 12-year-old brother hostage in Stilfontein, near Klerksdorp in the North West province on Wednesday. Police spokesperson, Captain Adele Myburgh, says the woman held her young brother

Twenty-nine pupils were stabbed on school grounds in the Western Cape in the first half of the year. A report from Cape Town says most of these stabbings were at the hands of fellow pupils. Education MEC Donald Grant's spokesperson, Bronagh