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Lekota has seven days to motivate need for guards FORMER defence minister Terror Lekota will get State bodyguards until next Wednesday, after which...

PRESIDENT Kgalema Motlanthe yesterday called for the mismatch between the countrys economic needs and its education to be addressed . Knowledge...

ONE of the young survivors of the Kei Rippers first attack says he can still hear the screams of his friend as the killers knife tore into the...

A judge has sentenced a 19-year-old white South African to four life terms in jail for killing four black people in a shooting spree in January....

A ground-breaking South African study has provided the first hard evidence that treating HIV-positive babies with antiretroviral (ARV) medicines from...

The current economic system, based on increasing economic growth as the overarching solution to fighting poverty is ineffective and unsustainable....

The global increase in food prices has resulted in a siren call from the pro-biotech cheerleaders that GM crops should be more widely adopted. But...

Governments across the world grapple with the question of how best to deal with sex work: should it be decriminalised, or should existing legislation...

Desmond Doshane, 19, is one of 1.6 million newly registered South African voters. He will be casting a ballot for the first time in elections due in...

A white teenager has pleaded guilty in a shooting spree that killed four blacks and reignited racial tensions in post-apartheid South Africa.