On a pot-holed stretch of the R573, a modest two-lane freeway near Kwaggafontein and an hour from Pretoria, 26 people were killed and 30 injured within seconds of a Putco bus’s collision with a stationary vehicle

TheSouthAfrican.com has received a number of requests from readers anxious to know how they can make their mark in the 2014 elections. Here’s our step-by-step guide to letting your voice be heard from abroad

ANC deputy president and Struggle stalwart Cyril Ramphosa has put backs up after a stray comment to a Limpopo resident yesterday upset Afrikaans-speaking South Africans

After nine months of stonewalling, South Africa’s embattled energy giant Eskom has come clean about allegations made in February by Greenpeace South Africa and other activist groups that the parastatal had employed an intelligence agency to spy on environmentalists

Earlier this year, many applicants for the spouse/partner visas felt relief after the UK High Court found the controversial UK immigration rules requiring a minimum income of at least £18,600 for spouse/partner visa applications, as ‘unjustified and disproportionate’ where the sponsor is a refugee or a British citizen

BIC consultants are often asked by South African clients based in South Africa, whether the fact that their spouse has dual citizenship from one of the EU countries, will enable the family to live and work in the UK. Many South Africans in the UK also get married to EU citizens and are not sure how this will affect their immigration status

Almost on a daily basis, the consultants at BIC hear stories from clients who have been advised incorrectly by unscrupulous immigration advisers, who are often not even allowed to render UK immigration advice

TechniBraam – the face of the Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering, (JCSE) itself a partnership between government, industry and Wits University – hopes to foster a culture of software innovation in central Johannesburg

Zululander turned Briton completes record-breaking five-month charity swim from Land’s End to John O’Groats.

GPS technology for awaiting-trial detainees should reduce overcrowding in prisons while allowing communities more control over wrongdoers

Several government ministers have applied to interdict the Public Protector in a bid to secure more time to examine her Nkandla report before it is released to the public

Piwe Gumpe has been nominated for Rising Star of the Year in the South African Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2013. Read his profile and vote for him here.

For the first time, eight South African veterans saluted HRH Queen Elizabeth at the Cenotaph in Whitehall as part of this year’s Remembrance Sunday commemoration.

At this early stage, the estimated death toll is hovering around the 10,000 mark. Those figures would rank Haiyan amongst the deadliest single weather events of its kind of the 21st century

Karine Torr has been nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year in the South African Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2013. Read her profile and vote for her here.

Over seven incredible years, Shingai Shoniwa (born in London to Zimbabwean parents) and Dan Smith have delivered their own pop with an exotic twist, and now they are back in a special gig showcasing their eclectic mix of intoxicating melodies and funky and rhythms.

The first international rhinoceros DNA sampling training workshop was held in South Africa on 5 and 6 November 2013. The purpose of the workshop was to enhance the world’s enforcement capacity to address the wave of rhinoceros poaching that has resulted in the killing of 825 animals in South Africa since January 2013.

While the youth and chiefly rural provinces are lagging in voter registration, the IEC has mobilised more resources and manpower than before to ensure that at least two million currently unregistered voters get onto the rolls before the country chooses its leader for the rest of the decade in 2014

We speak to the Hon. Jo Ann Downs, MPL for Kwa-Zulu Natal, about the African Christian Democratic Party’s vision for South Africa and for its sons and daughters who are making their lives beyond the Republic

Party stalwarts and some provinces see the DA’s embrace of a new Employment Equity bill as a betrayal of its fundamental identity in the hopes of short-term electoral gain

Last Sunday morning I was watching a series on the History Channel taped during the week called Porn Stars with my nine year old son.

The anti-fracking cause, which has long united a broad swathe of Karoo residents, has a powerful new backer – Johann Rupert, one of the country’s richest men. But can the movement win out against the patience and deep pockets of the oil companies, a government desperate for results and local residents who see in fracking a brighter and more prosperous future?

The recent warning by a highly-regarded former Israeli Prime Minister that South African Jews faced a pogrom has raised temperatures in Pretoria and Jerusalem – but the major South African Jewish organisations have appealed for calm on all sides – and aren’t going anywhere.

South Africa’s second largest populated state, Cape Town, has experienced quite the rise in market construction since the 2010 World Cup. The attention has increased real estate ever since and continues to progress to this day

Join CEO of Saracens, Edward Griffiths, at this year’s SA Business Awards, along with executives from the Chamber of Commerce and the London African Gospel Choir.