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The United National Transport Union (UNTU) is planning a protest to force the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) and Transport Ministry to find solutions for the on-going attacks on its members.

Venezuela’s opposition leader and self-proclaimed president, Juan Guaido on Monday called for new street demonstrations as pressure intensified on President Nicolas Maduro. Some countries have recognized Guaido as Venezuela’s rightful leader.

SAPS to implement new e-docket system in all police stations

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has stood firm against the President Donald Trump; informing him that he would not deliver his State of the Union in the House until Government was re-opened.

ANC says they will not react to state capture nor point at individuals named as they will await a full response from those implicated.

special risks insurer Sasria protests have contributed to an estimated R1 billion in losses

South Africa hopes the World Economic Forum will help it get a better handle on the fast changing technology, its challenges and opportunities.

Democratic Republic of Congo M17 party Vice President Kuku Itambo says African leaders should find a political solution to help resolve the impasse in the DRC.

An audio recording of senior African National Congress (ANC) Limpopo leader and Mopani district executive mayor, Nkakareng Rakgoale, promising jobs and bursaries in exchange for votes at the party's provincial list conference has gone viral on social media.

Afriforum plans to claim damages for Zimbabwean farmers who lost their assets during that country's land expropriation process. This after South Africa's Constitutional Court ordered the Presidency to withdraw the country's signature from a SADC Protocol that stripped individuals of the right to challenge their governments at the regional bloc Tribunal.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been honoured for the important role he played in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process.

Gavin Prince says his client is relieved

The Economic Freedom Fighters says it is considering legal action against the Investigative Journalism Centre - the AmaBhungane. This relates to a story that a fleet company that won the city's one-billion-rands' worth contract allegedly made payments to a company linked to EFF leader Julius Malema

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Sello Hatang's comment on the Is'thunzi Safazi event.

The former South African Airways (SAA) board chairperson, Cheryl Carolus, has told the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture that the Johannesburg-Mumbai-India route was very important to SAA, as it brought people from the east to west corridor.

Consumer confidence dropped significantly in the third quarter but still remains above average despite a weak economy. The FNB/BER consumer confidence index dropped to 7-points in the third quarter, from 22-points in the second quarter of 2018. Analysts have attributed the drop to higher petrol prices in the same period. The move is also viewed as a correction from the euphoria of Cyril Ramaphosa'...

Rising global hunger level is putting in jeopardy the target to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030 with at least 821 million people faced with starvation. At a global conference held in Bangkok, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the International Food and Research Institute (IFPRI) have warned that progress in ending hunger has stalled for three consecutive years a...

An investaigation by the SABC1 Current Affairs programme, Cutting Edge, has uncovered widespread sexual abuse of children with disabilities in special schools in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

An investaigation by the SABC1 Current Affairs programme, Cutting Edge, has uncovered widespread sexual abuse of children with disabilities in special schools in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

Today marks World Children's Day. Declared by the United Nations General Assembly in 1954, the day is aimed at pushing governments to pay more attention to the welfare of their youngest citizens.

The City of Ekurhuleni in Gauteng is appealing to those who have applied for new IDs to collect them as soon as possible, so that they can register to vote during the voter registration period on 26 and 27 January 2019.

Nigeria are on a revenge mission and have declared war on Bafana Bafana ahead of Saturday's 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg.

Parliament's joint Constitutional Review Committee has adopted a report which recommends that Section 25 of the Constitution be amended to explicitly allow for land to be expropriated without compensation. Committee chair, Lewis Mzimande, spoke on a media briefing.

Speaking at the International Fraud Awareness Week seminar in Bloemfontein, Rockman says officials in the government are also empowered to act in order to minimise the impact of fraud.