South African hunters and safari operators are exploiting the Zimbabwean political situation as local authorities make a fast buck by allowing them to strip parts of the new Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park and its surrounds, including the farming district bordering South Africa.

Clinics in rural areas often have hundreds of pamphlets on health issues, but very few of these well-intended leaflets reach their target audience. About 30% of South African adults are functionally illiterate and this figure is often higher in rural communities where many pamphlets end up as fuel for the household fire.

Wasim Akram is in the twilight of his career, but even at a ripe 37 there is still a lot of fight in the old warhorse. His legend is the stuff of a Bollywood script. Ball tampering, match fixings and broken friendships mark his illustrious career. But Wasim has survived them all, and is still grinning and smirking at the end of his career. He will retire on his own terms, not those laid down by others.

More than 20% of South African domestic workers earn less than the government’s stipulated minimum wage, with a fifth of the 1 100 respondents in a survey earning less than R500 a month, a new report reveals. According to Migration and Domestic Workers: Worlds of Work, Health and Mobility in Johannesburg, about 55,7% of respondents earned between R501 and R1 000 a month.

South Africa stands to gain much from the tax in terms of both monetary and environmental benefits, but business warns of job losses.

Yolandi Groenewald ditched her car for the Gautrain. Now that she has worked through the issues, she's in love.

Wildlife groups call for probe into alleged African grey trafficking after 730 birds die on aircraft.

After winning praise for their role in Cancùn, SA's negotiators have high hopes for Durban talks.