South Africa's constitutional court has averted a crisis on welfare payments to 17 million people by extending the contract of the processing company by one year.
South Africa's top court on Wednesday blamed Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini for a "crisis" that could jeopardise the payment of welfare benefits to 17 million people, saying she had failed to resolve a service-provider dispute.
Years of allegedly underhanded police and politician tactics involving some of the country's most notorious criminals have led up to a mammoth case expected to proceed in the Western Cape High Court on Monday.
South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) needs to end corruption and party divisions, and deliver on promises to tackle poverty if it is to halt declining voter support, a new policy document said on Sunday.
South African anti-apartheid veteran Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of the late president Nelson Mandela, is "absolutely fine" after being admitted to hospital for observation, her...
