Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s first major policy statement since returning to the cabinet almost halved the treasury’s growth forecast while predicting a steady increase in debt and borrowing.

In a revision that puts the government in line with the Reserve Bank’s forecast, the state now expects the economy to grow 0.7% in 2018, compared with the 1.5% prediction that was presented by former finance minister Malusi Gigaba in February.

The police in the Free State said they are currently not investigating any links of the murder of the outspoken Vrede farmer, Philemon Ngwenya to a voice clip that was circulating before his murder, which called for the chairman of the farmers’ association in the area, Ephraim Dlamini to be killed.

Times Select has got the voice clip between two people in conversation about killing Dlamini. In the clip, one could be heard saying they would “put Dlamini’s head” under a train for money.

If EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu did steal money from VBS Mutual Bank‚ he would be punished accordingly‚ Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema said on Tuesday.

Addressing a media briefing in Johannesburg‚ Malema said: “The deputy president of the EFF Floyd Shivambu has taken the EFF leadership into his confidence in relation to the VBS media claims and we have no reason to doubt him‚ more so because he is not mentioned in the official Motau VBS report.”

Fresh produce supplier verbally abuses school employee for refusing to accept rotten cabbages. The supplier, who brought the supplies in a taxi, dropped them off at Malebo Secondary School in Limpopo on a Sunday.

The Democratic Alliance plans a legal challenge to Monday’s ousting of Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip.

Party leader Mmusi Maimane said a “coalition of corruption” made up of the ANC‚ UDM and EFF had undermined the will of the electorate by “unlawfully removing” Port Elizabeth’s DA-led coalition government.

EFF leader Julius Malema on Thursday told US president Donald Trump‚ whom he referred to as a pathological liar‚ to stay out of South Africa's domestic affairs.

Former US president Barack Obama delivered a speech to a crowd of 15,000 people in Johannesburg on Tuesday as the centrepiece of celebrations marking 100 years since Nelson Mandela's birth.

President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke at the annual Nelson Mandela lecture on Tuesday, and finished by introducing the keynote speaker

Former United States president Barack Obama delivered a speech to a crowd of 15,000 people in Johannesburg on Tuesday as the centrepiece of celebrations marking 100 years since Nelson Mandela's birth.

Widow of former president Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel gave a rousing address at the annual Nelson Mandela lecture.

Former US president Barack Obama delivered a speech to a crowd of 15,000 people in Johannesburg on Tuesday as the centrepiece of celebrations marking 100 years since Nelson Mandela's birth.

Suspended SARS Commissioner Tom Moyane hosted a media conference on Monday to brief the public about the latest developments in matters related to his term of office.