South Africa News

The Tamil Federation of Gauteng has moved their protest against the persecution of Tamils in Sri Lanka, to Lenasia, south of Johannesburg.

A man was killed and two others injured when their car overturned on the N3 near Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday, paramedics said.

's showcase project in South Africa, the high-speed Gautrain, was a popular sensation when it launched in 2010 during the soccer World Cup.

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The State has decided to prosecute a Free State male nurse who allegedly raped a terminally ill cancer patient in a Bloemfontein hospital.

The body of a six-year-old girl who went missing from Mbekweni, in Paarl, has not been found even though her alleged murderer pointed out where he dumped it, Western Cape police said on Tuesday.

The IFP continues to bleed senior leaders - stalwart the Reverend Musa Zondi, who was widely touted as a possible successor to party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi, has resigned as an MP and as IFP secretary-general in a move that confirms his announcement last December that he wanted to retire from active politics.

Nationalization is not an option for South Africa's troubled mining industry, the country's mining minister told an international audience Tuesday.

A Durban High Court judge has questioned several divorce applications being brought by foreigners who married SA women despite not being able to speak English properly.

Kwakhe 'Mgqumeni' Khumalo, left, before his death and the man who has mysteriously returned and claims to be him.

South Africa is the only country where one is more likely to be murdered than to be killed in a road accident.

The Durban International Convention Centre has clinched another global medical conference - this time the city will play host to malaria experts from around the world.

Suspended ANCYL president Julius Malema gestures as his secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa looks on during a media briefing at the party's headquarters in Johannesburg, November 16, 2011.

A man and woman walking in ankle-deep water on a beach near Port Shepstone drowned when the sand gave way and they were washed out to sea, the NSRI said on Sunday.

There are few expectations and definitely no hope of fireworks from President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation address on Thursday, according to opposition political parties and analysts.

A man has been arrested in connection with the killing of his younger brother in Mdantsane, near East London, Eastern Cape police said on Sunday.

Some of the heroin seized during a police raid in Florida Road. It is believed the drug was going to be supplied to users in the upmarket area.

Thirteen security guards from Specialised Protection Services have been arrested in a series of raids on Cape Town nightclubs.

An Eni SpA oil pipeline ruptured and caught fire as a militant group claimed responsibility for an attack in the region, their first alleged assault in months as its purported leader awaits trial on terrorism charges in South Africa.

A man was killed and another critically injured when a microlight plunged to the ground in Krugersdorp on Saturday, Gauteng paramedics said.