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The Road Traffic Management Corporation says it is still waiting to hear if the National Treasury has written off the R200m it owes the transport department. The RTMC has told the standing committee on public accounts that it did not have the money

 Government has honoured an 80-year-old driver as a "sterling example", for going 62 years without a single traffic fine, in a nation where 40 people are killed on the roads every day. Hazel Souma was handed a certificate for her

 One hundred rhino were killed by poachers in the first two months of 2012, compared with 400 rhino killed in the whole of 2011. That's according to a spokesperson for the newly launched "rhino orphanage" in Limpopo. Arrie van

The Tobacco Industry of Southern Africa says at least 15-thousand jobs have been lost over the last 10 years due to the smuggling of contraband cigarettes. TISA chairperson Francois van der Merwe says the illegal trade of cigarettes is crippling

Durban brother and sister Hardus and Nicolette Lotter were convicted in the Durban High Court on Tuesday of murdering their parents. Mathew Naidoo, Nicolette's boyfriend at the time, who the siblings said was the mastermind behind the murder plot

 The constitutionality of amendments to the Films and Publications Act will be considered by the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The provisions, introduced in 2010, require that publications --excluding newspapers -- are

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela says there is massive maladministration in South Africa because of unethical leadership. Addressing delegates at the "Tomorrow's Leaders Convention" in Johannesburg this morning, Madonsela said without

 Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has asked the Public Protector to investigate "bribery" allegations made against his partner in a weekend newspaper report. Motlanthe says he's written to Public Protector Thuli Madonsela asking

The National Prosecuting Authority in the Western Cape says torture charges against 14 members of the Hawks are being finalised. NPA spokesperson, Eric Ntabazalila, says they are busy preparing an indictment on the matter and charges will be