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The man who was sent in to fix a struggling municipality in Mpumalanga has allegedly spent about R20m for bodyguards to protect himself and senior managers - from their own colleagues....

Here is the complete list of President Jacob Zuma's chosen ministers and deputy ministers....

There have been few surprises in the Cabinet announced by President Jacob Zuma, with 14 ministers retained in their old portfolios....

President Jacob Zuma has established a ministry of telecommunications and postal services to get more value out of the telecommunications sector....

Two people have died when a minibus taxi and another vehicle collided on the R37 near Polokwane, Limpopo, paramedics say....

The arts and culture offices of the Mngeni municipality were burnt down at the weekend, the KwaZulu-Natal community safety department has said....

Nhlanhla Nene, the former deputy finance minister, has been promoted to replace Pravin Gordhan....

President Jacob Zuma's newly-announced Cabinet is balanced and experienced, the African National Congress says....

President Jacob Zuma's new Cabinet gives South Africans little hope that the country's problems will be tackled effectively, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille says....

Two people were injured when a fire broke out in a building in the Johannesburg city centre on Saturday evening, emergency services said....

Police say they'll maintain a presence at Muizenberg in the Cape Peninsula until the recent outbreak of taxi violence has stabilized...

Aid organisation, Gift of the Givers, has accused Lonmin mine security of preventing its vehicle from entering the Marikana mine on Saturday....

A Limpopo woman has been arrested for allegedly hacking one of her three-month-old twins to death with an axe, police said on Sunday....

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has been served with legal papers that seek to prove that alternative medicine is safe, a Sunday newspaper reported....

An ANCYL member alleged to have dodged paying a R83 000 restaurant bill has accused its owners of trying to popularize their restaurant by tarnishing his name, a Sunday paper reports....

Limpopo police are investigating two murder cases after the bodies of two people were found near a river at Ha-Mashamba village outside Makhado, Limpopo. ...

Two people have been injured after a fire broke out in a building in the Johannesburg city centre, emergency services says....

Former Agang SA spokesperson Thabo Leshilo is taking the party to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration after it apparently failed to pay him his December Salary, a report says....

South African Social Security Agency boss Virginia Petersen is embroiled in yet another scandal – this time for giving jobs to pals....

One of South Africa’s oldest and most prestigious boys’ schools has been embroiled in a sex-abuse cover up scandal that goes back two decades....