Riot police clashed with EFF Student Command members outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday.

The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) slammed the increase in the number of alleged racist incidents on Tuesday, saying that it signals a “resurgence of racial arrogance”.

Several Congolese nationals have been arrested after an anti-government protest in front of the Democratic Republic of the Congo embassy in Pretoria turned violent on Tuesday.

The killing of two IFP leaders over the weekend was senseless and brutal, party spokesperson on community safety and liaison Blessed Gwala said on Tuesday.

A collision between two vehicles in Durban left an elderly woman dead and 11 others, including children, injured, paramedics said on Sunday.

The government should “wake up and smell the herbs” and decriminalise cannabis, an activist for the plant told the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is available to take on the position of president of the ANC in 2017 should he garner enough support to do so.

Government will present arguments in an application over the decriminalisation of cannabis when it continues in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday.

Optimum Coal Mine has failed to pay an R4.2 million invoice to a company contracted to build a new state-of-the-art public health clinic.

Yunus Carrim, ANC MP and chairperson of the standing committee on finance, took a tough stance against the fact that the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) Bill has been sent back to Parliament for “constitutional reasons”.

South Africa’s gross domestic product grew at a meagre 0.2% in the third quarter of 2016, Statistics South Africa announced on Tuesday.

The two men who allegedly forced Victor Mlotshwa into a coffin did it because they merely wanted to teach him a lesson, the Middelburg Magistrate’s Court heard on Friday.

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan admitted in a parliamentary response that there is a lack of accountability and cooperation from the top management at the South African Revenue Service (Sars)

ANC NEC member Tony Yengeni says the party needs to learn from the example of Cuba to stop comrades “turning on each other” for positions.

The City of Cape Town says while residents have done a good job to consume less water, it’s still not enough.

Despite the ANC NEC failing to recall president Jacob Zuma over the weekend, Gwede Mantashe says people should not forget that the ANC has a national conference in 2017, where a new leader will be elected.

The South African economy is not growing at the rate required to decisively tackle unemployment, inequality and poverty, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday.

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has denied claims that she has opened a case against her predecessor, Thuli Madonsela.

The decision by Fitch to retain South Africa’s sovereign credit rating at its current level – although with a rating outlook change – is a vindication of the efforts by government, labour and business over the past year to negotiate and undertake structural reforms to drive faster, more sustainable and more inclusive economic growth for the benefit of all South Africans.

Recent ratings outcomes mean South Africa is given some time to fast-track growth-enhancing strategies to minimise the costs associated with negative sentiments, said National Treasury.

Rating agency Fitch is keeping an eye on the effect of continued student protests and “political noise”, the Treasury said on Saturday after the release of the latest country ratings for South Africa.

Walmart-owned Masstores has succeeded in its appeal at the Constitutional Court to have the right to operate as a supermarket that sells fresh foods at a Western Cape shopping centre.

Nothing to do with the divisive leader of the party, then?

The problem with South Africans is that they’re “politicising” the decision that rating agencies are about to make on the country’s sovereign credit rating, said President Jacob Zuma in Parliament on Wednesday.

This was the message from President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday in when he responded to questions in the National Assembly.