New research shows it may be possible for overweight people to retrain their brains to prefer healthy low-calorie foods.
To rehabilitate mines, taxpayers will have to dig deep, says environmentalist.
When Johannesburg Zoo opened, if you wanted to visit but had no money, you could make a different sort of donation.
Climate warming trends will affect our weather, say scientists.
A security guard found the bodies of two babies wrapped in the same plastic bag at a rubbish dump in Joburg.
It was Fahim Essack’s word against two cops’ - but now tracking data from the officers BMW appears to fit the victim’s story.
A man has opened a docket with police, claiming that metro police officers robbed him of more than R500 000 and threatened to shoot him.
Putrid smells, dirt and murder is just some of the dangers lurking outside the Johannesburg High Court.
Despite being sentenced to 25 years, Jub Jub is still trying to convince the courts he should be allowed out.
Department of Water says fixing growing infrastructure problems will cost hundreds of millions over next few years. Theresa Taylor reports
Theresa Taylor explores how damage to SA’s rivers leads to health problems.
Theresa Taylor looks at the evolution of water use in South Africa.
The Drakensberg gets its angular points, not from erosion or temperature, but from the strike of lightning bolts.
After nearly two decades of effort, South Africa’s first wattled crane chick has been bred in captivity.
Treating wastewater from fracking could pose significant challenge, says study.
"What's it going to be? Fear of fracking or more reduction of global energy emissions?" This was the message from BP.
Someone carefully removed the glass from Nelson Khumalo’s bedroom window, climbed in and shot him 18 times.
Humans are causing climate change that is going to alter South Africa’s weather in decades to come.
JC Koster lived less than three months, but he saved two lives. “He touched more people’s lives in two and a half months, or one day ...
“It’s the way you bring them up, if pit bulls could buy you flowers they would. ”
One corpse. Nine names, but no identity. This is the conundrum cops were dealing with when they tried to identify a dead man.
An armed robbery at an electronics store at Fourways Mall ended in a dramatic crash with a taxi and the recovery of a stolen safe.
For the first time in more than seven months, little burn victim Pippi Kruger, 3, has spent a night in the same house as her parents
Advertising execs have brainstormed the catchiest way to combine the numbers 67 and 94.
World health body to review quality-control mechanisms and procedures.