ID leader Patricia de Lille will join the Western Cape government as social development minister, provincial premier Helen Zille said in Cape Town .

Former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi has asked his lawyers to tell "authorities" that his corruption prosecution may have been improper

The matter of MPs choosing to drive rather than fly, at a lesser cost, between Parliament and their constituencies will be examined at a meeting of the multi-party Parliamentary Oversight Authority (POA) next week.

The head of the International Cricket Council has called the latest fixing allegations the most serious case of corruption to hit the sport since South Africa captain Hansie Cronje was banned for life 10 years ago.

A US-based NGO has demoted South Africa on its "free" countries list due "to an increase in hostile rhetoric towards the media on the part of government officials".