South Africa News

The IFP has won a ward seat from the ANC in Albert Luthuli municipality in a Mpumalanga by-election, IEC results have shown.

With freedom of expression under threat in South Africa again, Anton Harber recalls an electric confrontation between two Booker prize winners, JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, about the censorship of a third - Salman Rushdie It started on a Thursday midday, when the organiser of the Weekly Mail Book Week put the phone down, walked across the ... (more)

Green, bar-coded identity books will be replaced with identity smart cards from July, Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday.

Parliament will probably debate the deaths of initiates at the end of the month, the African National Congress chief whip's office said on Thursday.

The 'Fresh All Day' camp is becoming a little bit dry after two of its members left the group to pursue different career paths.

Nelson Mandela, old and frail, lives in seclusion in his Johannesburg home. Beyond the high walls of the house, the fighting over his image and what he stood for has already begun.

A South African government report released on Wednesday implicated President Jacob Zuma in a scandal over a plane chartered by rich friends of his which landed at a military base without proper permission.The presidency and Zuma's ruling African National Congress have denied demanding landing permission for the flight carrying nearly 200 guests for ... (more)

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 23-year-old in Umlazi, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Wednesday.

The University of the Witwatersrand marked the centenary of Indian cinema with two special events - a week-long screening of five famous Indian films from different eras and a talk by academic Dilp Menon, Director of the Centre for Indian Studies, titled 'Making a Song and Dance of it: taking Bollywood seriously'. Cinema buffs got a taste of how ... (more)

From The Algemeiner : "Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, a member of the South African Parliament and founder of the African Christian Democratic Party , sees irony in how the anti-Israel attitudes of his country's mainstream politicians are depriving them of benefits the Jewish state could bring them.

A man who died after a fitness test in KwaZulu-Natal last year succumbed because of an epileptic attack, a commission of inquiry heard on Wednesday.

KwaZulu-Natal community safety MEC Willies Mchunu on Wednesday welcomed the 25-year jail sentence the Durban High Court handed to the man who murdered Kloof resident Rodney Bradley.

The government expressed dismay on Wednesday that there were still citizens who did not want to integrate into a democratic South Africa.

The reported racial exclusion policies of Kleinfontien farm settlement, near Pretoria, will be the target of a Democratic Alliance Youth protest on Thursday.

"It is an obligation in terms of section 34 of the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act to report criminal activities as listed in the document," DA MPL Chris Hattingh said in a statement.

The University of KwaZulu-Natal has announced that starting next year, all entering students must study Zulu .

The U.S. gets hit the most, but South Africa, Bangladesh, and Canada also see a fair amount of twisters.

Reba McEntire has physically been in Cape Town, South Africa, but her heart has been with those suffering in her home state of Oklahoma.

Fifteen years after being acquitted in the sensational R31.4 million SBV robbery, a Durban businessman now faces possible life imprisonment for murder after a nine-year-old girl and her grandmother were killed in a hand grenade attack while sleeping.

A controversial BBC report on white South Africans has been condemned by the ANC and the DA for being incongruent with the reality in the country.