Today at 21:08:18 - Four hundred tons of beaded bracelets made in KZN by hundreds of rural women are to be shipped to The Netherlands, as part of a campaign to get "crazy" Dutch football fans celebrating the Fifa World C ...

Today at 21:08:18 - A totaL of 866 primary and 575 secondary schools in KwaZulu-Natal are over-enrolled, with a huge migration from under-performing to higher-performing schools.

Today at 21:08:18 - Qaphela Mkhwanazi has traded the streets for the title of head boy.

Today at 22:38:13 - The crisis-ridden uMsunduzi municipality continues to be a hot-potato.

Today at 20:23:36 - At least nine people have drowned and 15 were missing after a small boat capsized off Cameroon's coast while on its way to neighbouring Nigeria.

Today at 20:22:13 - A Gambian human rights activist was denied bail by a Banjul court where he appeared after being accused of lying in a letter written to President Yayha Jammeh.

Today at 20:33:13 - The country's largest private security company has obtained an urgent court order against the Central Firearms Registry for firearm permits for the 2010 SWC.

Today at 20:28:15 - Around 130 000 people will be evacuated from flood-prone areas in Mozambique because of rising waters in three main rivers, state media has said.

Today at 20:28:15 - About 8 000 Nigerians have fled their homes around the troubled city of Jos following new sectarian attacks there, the Red Cross has said.

Today at 20:28:15 - Libya has accepted an apology from a US State Department official for a joking remark he made about Muammar Gaddafi's call for holy war against Switzerland.

Today at 20:28:15 - A Gambian human rights activist has been denied bail by a court after being accused of lying in a letter written to President Yahya Jammeh.

Today at 20:21:54 - The ANC and the SA Communist Party will hold a meeting in Cape Town to discuss events that led up to an ANC delegation being booed.

Today at 20:30:00 - Thousands of Nigerians today marched to the gates of the presidential villa to demand an end to the presidency of ailing leader Umaru Yar'Adua so Acting President Goodluck Jonathan can take over as he ...

Today at 18:11:00 - The ANC Youth league (ANCYL) says it is losing confidence in Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan for not following party policy and ignoring the plight of the youth.

Today at 17:04:00 - South Africa's Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan accused a group of Reserve Bank shareholders of trying to create conditions that will lead to the liquidation of the bank. He's told Parliament that the ...

Today at 16:44:00 - The outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in the Free State is out of control. The Lejweleputswa district in the Free State province is the hardest hit with 1200 livestock having already died and hundreds of ...

Today at 16:40:00 - The Congress of the People's (COPE) Youth Movement in the Free State is calling for the disbandment of the National Steering Committee chaired by youth leader Anele Mda. The call comes after Mda and t ...

Today at 16:23:00 - The Transport Department spent over R75-million on four conferences in two years, the Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday.

Today at 16:18:00 - President Jacob Zuma has finally declared his and his family's benefits and interests, his attorney Michael Hulley has said.

Today at 15:53:00 - As premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille should have been party to the JSC's deliberations on Judge John Hlophe, a court was told on Wednesday.

Today at 15:14:00 - Sporadic shooting rang out overnight in the central Nigerian city of Jos, and witnesses said at least one person was killed by soldiers.

Today at 13:30:00 - A police van transporting hip-hop star Molemo Maarohanye and co-accused Themba Tshabalala was pelted with stones by angry students on Wednesday.

Today at 12:55:00 - The ANC has not yet decided whether to meet its youth league president, Julius Malema, over racially charged comments he made at a student rally.

Today at 10:30:01 - THE ruling party has come under fire for calling on police to escort its officials to serve party expulsion letters on some of its Amahlathi councillors at the weekend. This happened after the A ...

Today at 10:30:01 - TENSIONS are running high within the youth movement of the Congress of the People (Cope) amid calls that the structure’s national steering committee be disbanded. The youth movement&#x201 ...

Today at 10:30:01 - A DILAPIDATED Grahamstown school, which has taken the Education Department to court in an attempt to get it to provide the school with proper facilities, has again had to resort to the courts &# ...

Today at 06:00:01 - Sanela Dlanjwa. Picture: LUBABALO NGCUKANATHE second day of the trial in which a Transkei widow is suing the Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, for R5.8 million in damages saw her being extensi ...

Today at 06:00:01 - Eskom loan: ANC must first divest, says ID THE loan parastatal Eskom wanted from the World Bank must be conditional on the divestment of the ANC's Chancellor House company from Hitachi Power Africa, ...

Today at 06:00:01 - A car crash in Florida is being blamed on the fact that the driver was attempting to shave her bikini line at the wheel.

Today at 06:00:01 - A day after her extraordinary attack on former president Nelson Mandela made headlines in the UK and South Africa, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seems to have gone to ground while the ANC wants her to exp ...

Today at 06:00:01 - A female metro police officer was pulled from her official car and attacked, and her armed colleagues were forced to retreat as upset Khayelitsha residents confronted the council's Anti Land Invasion ...

09/03/2010 at 06:00:01 - Former Welsh rugby legend JPR Williams has been banned from driving for 17 months after a court heard he tried to beat the breathalyser test by putting copper coins in his mouth.

09/03/2010 at 06:00:01 - A WORCESTER woman was "lucky to be alive" after being found with her husband near the wreck of their glider more than a day after the couple crashed near the Kwaggaskloof Dam. He had been killed.

11/11/2009 at 03:06:24 - President Jacob Zuma, chosen as Africa's finest, had the prestigious African President of the Year award 2009 bestowed on him on Tuesday.

10/11/2009 at 04:57:46 - Three African trade blocs that have agreed to form a free trade area covering more than half a billion people created a long overdue roadmap on Monday.

26/08/2009 at 12:15:53 - Gwede Mantashe, secretary general of the ANC, said President Jacob Zuma would be vocal about problems in Zimbabwe when he visits Harare this week, a reversal of the quiet diplomacy practiced by former ...

12/08/2009 at 12:39:42 - Thirteen years after it opened for signature, the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty has finally come into force, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) said on Wednesday.

12/08/2009 at 07:06:00 - The good news for Africa in these tough times is that the continent is riding out the global tempest better than it did in previous – and, be it noted, lesser – downturns.

Today at 02:00:00 - GEORGE’S R80- million waste-water recycling plant, which will be able to process 10 megalitres of water a day, will be completed in May, ahead of the Fifa World Cup when the Japanese team will ...

Today at 02:00:00 - THE showdown spectacle of lions in a warriors’ den has hit fever pitch in Nelson Mandela Bay with a virtual sell-out of tickets for the much-anticipated Standard Bank Pro20 final at St George&# ...

Today at 02:00:00 - NELSON Mandela Bay’s city housing and land agreed yesterday to postpone a decision on all applications for the establishment of taverns until the next meeting of the Liquor Board.

Today at 02:00:00 - THE green pitch at Port Elizabeth’s World Cup stadium has become an island in a sea of brown, exempt from water limits imposed due to a drought that has scorched the land outside.

Today at 02:00:00 - A SIDWELL businessman was robbed of an undisclosed amount outside his work premises at 8am yesterday after being followed from the bank.