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Liberals are incensed that Conservative MPs have distributed taxpayer-funded pamphlets that suggest the Grits are anti-Semitic. Read the pamphlet here Even New Democrat and Bloc QuA©bA©cois MPs agree the latest propaganda represents a new low in the Tories' increasingly partisan use of so-called 10 percenters, mailings that MPs are ...

By Xolani Mbanjwa and Bronwynne Jooste Staff Reporters Farmers in De Doorns have rejected allegations that they are paying Zimbabwean immigrants lower than the minimum wage and are therefore responsible for the xenophobic attacks that erupted in the region this week.

South African Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson will star as Winnie Mandela in a film to be made in 2010 in South Africa, Ma-Afrika Films said on Friday.

Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi told hospital chief executives and managers on Thursday to shape up or they will be removed.

The wives of four South African men abducted on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, nearly three years ago have made an emotional plea for help to President Jacob Zuma.

The Western Cape government was more concerned about the media than the well-being of the De Doorns xenophobia victims, refugee rights group Passop claimed.

BRITISH tourists whose truck crashed in a safari park in Cape Town, South Africa managed to scare off a pack of lions by throwing their shoes at them.

The cost and use of the police jet bought last year was defended by Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa in Pretoria.

A man was beaten to death by community members in Umlazi K section in Durban on Thursday, KwaZulu-Natal police said.

South Africa's government says it is investigating reports that South African mercenaries are training supporters of Guinea's military junta.

View the gallery Natasha Prince Staff Reporter Scores of De Doorns residents, most of them farmworkers, ripped down shacks belonging to Zimbabweans this morning, accusing them of "stealing our jobs". The Zimbabwean families were forced to pack up their belongings and seek refuge in a community hall in the Hex River Valley town, which is about two ...

A 24-year-old woman is in a serious condition after hijackers forced her out of her vehicle and pushed her over the Umkomaas River Bridge on the N2 south in Chatsworth , Netcare 911 said on Saturday.

Cabinet has decided to set up a new anti-corruption inter-ministerial committee to deal effectively with all incidents of corruption in the public service, government spokesman Themba Maseko announced.

The global recession is not dampening America's international drive to stop AIDS, the head of the campaign said Wednesday.

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson is to play Winnie Mandela in a new biopic about the controversial former wife of South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela.

By Joe Lauria A Western diplomat has corroborated French media reports that mercenaries from South Africa are training forces loyal to the coup leader in Guinea.

The reggae singer the Springboks accused of butchering the anthem before the 20-13 Test match defeat to France said Saturday that he thought he had "sung beautifully". Ras Dumisani, sporting dreadlocks tucked into a huge red, green and white Rastafarian cap, was adamant that his performance - which made large parts of the Toulouse crowd burst into ...

Dressed in identical orange uniforms, inmates at South Africa's maximum-security Pollsmoor prison sing and act for the cameras in a new reality series where they vie to be crowned "Jail Star". Photograph by: . The Cape Town prison, best known for gang violence in one of the world's most violent countries, has launched a TV talent search for ...

A mom gains more than 100 pounds after having a baby, and becomes suspicious of her husband after she finds a woman's number in his pocket; a Russian man makes a shocking discovery about his love interest.

Japan's soccer chief has joined in the chorus of protestors wanting the noisy vuvuzela trumpet be banned from next year's World Cup in South Africa.