Two South African astronomers are part of an international team of scientists that has helped to make a groundbreaking discovery by peering through the stars and dust of the Milky Way with a radio telescope to discover galaxies beyond it.
Ex-apartheid chemical warfare expert dubbed “Dr Death”‚ Wouter Basson‚ has accused the Health Professions Council of SA’s tribunal that found him guilty of unethical conduct of being biased.
National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete’s lawyer Lindi Nkosi-Thomas gained instant fame on social media after she fumbled through her submissions in the Nkandla matter in the Constitutional Court on Tuesday.
Cardiologist and apartheid-era chemical warfare head Wouter Basson believes he was found guilty of unprofessional conduct before any evidence against him had been heard.
More than 42% of South African adults feel that taxpayers should not pay for President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead, a survey has shown.
National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete’s lawyer Lindi Nkosi-Thomas gained instant fame on social media after she fumbled through her submissions in the Nkandla matter in the Constitutional Court.
The Gupta brothers have obtained an urgent interdict to stop the EFF from threatening them.
Judgment has been reserved in a Constitutional Court matter regarding the power of chapter nine institutions.
UCT Professor Renée Kraan-Korteweg and Dr Anja Schröder of SAAO among lead authors of breakthrough paper
Judgment has been reserved in the EFF and DA’s application to the Constitutional Court for an order that President Jacob Zuma pay back some of the R246m spent on his home in Nkandla.
Drugs and R34 000 in cash were found in an abandoned shack in Gugulethu, a Cape Town Metro Police official has said.
A study conducted by the SA Institute for Race Relations says that “deep-seated racial and social inequalities” in South Africa have a major impact on matric results.
Started by the Democratic Alliance, newcomer EFF claimed the fight about the presidential scandal as its supporters filled the streets.
Nobody had ever complained to the HPCSA about suffering harm due to the advice given in any of Professor Tim Noakes’s 29 000 tweets, a hearing into his conduct heard on Tuesday.
President Jacob Zuma defied the Public Protector to protect his “ill-gotten gains”, an advocate told the Constitutional Court.
In a day of high drama, President Jacob Zuma’s lawyer Jeremy Gauntlett conceded that the Public Protector’s findings into security upgrades at Nkandla were in fact binding, he told the Constitutional Court.
The ten boys accused of gang raping a Lamontville teen at a school have appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court.
The Nkandla matter has ”traumatised the nation in many ways”, President Jacob Zuma’s lawyer Jeremy Gauntlett said in the Constitutional Court.
President Jacob Zuma’s lawyer has conceded that the Public Protector’s findings were binding and her report on Nkandla ‘has to be complied with’.
ER24 said in a statement, “Paramedics assessed the patient and found that had already succumbed to his multiple fatal injuries. Unfortunately nothing more could be done for the patient and he was declared dead on scene”.
The charge had been laid at Milnerton police station in May last year by Desmond Tutu’s wife, Leah, but details of what happened had not been released.
Politicians have the right to criticise anyone without fear of intimidation, EFF leader Julius Malema says.
When ER24 paramedics arrived on scene, they found the taxi lying on its side in the fast lane of the highway.
The ANC has welcomed the application brought to the Constitutional Court regarding the power of chapter nine institutions.
ANC Youth League leader Collen Maine’s threat of a civil war is totally out of order, National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete has said.
The cause of the fire is not yet known but local authorities were on scene for further investigations.
The Gupta family has accused the EFF of threatening violence and xenophobia in its urgent application to interdict party leader Julius Malema and party members from making further threatening statements.
The roars of EFF supporters broke through the solemnity of advocate Gilbert Marcus’s argument in the Constitutional Court for Public Protector Thuli Madonsela who has come under fire over her report on the cost of improvements to President Jacob Zuma’s…
It is the duty of a doctor to educate his patient, and this can’t be done via social media, the disciplinary hearing against Professor Tim Noakes has heard.
There are deep racial divisions when it comes to matric results, the Institute of Race Relations said.
With rescue teams only 12 metres away from where three Lily Mine workers are trapped, it’s now only a matter of drilling through rocks to reach the them, the mine’s operations director says.
Customs officials at the King Shaka International Airport in KwaZulu-Natal have intercepted a consignment of currency worth more than R7m at the weekend.
EFF leader Julius Malema has called on the Constitutional Court to “do the right thing” when handling the matter before them regarding upgrades at President Jacob Zuma’s home in Nkandla.
Police Minister Nathi Nhleko’s report clearing President Jacob Zuma over repayments for Nkandla upgrades has no legal standing, the Constitutional Court has heard.
“At the scene of the collision, one can only see debris. Rescue workers are climbing around and pulling people out,” a rescue worker worker said to Bavarian broadcaster BR.
Opposition protesters marched on Tuesday to Johannesburg’s Constitutional Court, where judges heard a case over public money spent on President Jacob Zuma’s private house.
The Economic Freedom Fighters leader joined thousands of supporters as they marched to the Constitutional Court where the Nkandla case is being heard.
“Feedback received from communities at the Alternative Mining Indaba in Cape Town describe scenes of intimidation and blatant disregard for the interests of the people and the environment by both government and the mining sector,” says John Capel, Executive Director of the Bench Marks Foundation.
The University of Cape Town has expressed concern over the safety of its students after two students were robbed and hijacked just minutes apart near the university’s medical campus.
This is the airport’s largest currency bust this year.