South Africa News

It was the first day of the 2010 Soccer World Cup, and Bafana Bafana scored a goal in the opening match against Mexico.

Striking South African workers at a chrome mine owned by German chemicals group Lanxess have signed a deal to end a week-long illegal walkout, after winning a one-off payment from the latest company to give in to militant labour pressure.

Alternative accommodation has to be provided for thousands of illegal squatters occupying private land in Klerksdorp, North West, the High Court in Pretoria ordered on Friday.

Oscar Pistorius was more than a national hero. His success came to symbolise South Africa's triumph over apartheid.

"I thought she would come back home safely." These were Vinolia Kekana's sad words after she had just learnt about her friend Philasande Ngum's death.

It is difficult to know what to think of the African Union, just as it is hard to assess the performance of the United Nations.

Eastern Cape teachers who planned to take the basic education department to court for non-payment have been paid, the department said on Friday.

The wife of a Welkom policeman killed near his office in November last year has been arrested in connection with his murder, Free State police said on Friday.

A KwaZulu-Natal man was sentenced by the Vryheid Regional Court to 18 years in jail for raping a 12-year-old girl, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Friday.

The Congress of SA Trade Unions is studying the court ruling halting its planned e-toll protest, it said on Friday.

TONY Stimson was dumbfounded when he came across the grave of a man his grandfather had shot dead in the Boer War.

The "justice" part of the criminal-justice system comes in for intense scrutiny, but the "criminal" part is, of course, just as important.

The Hawks police unit is investigating PetroSA, and a probe by the Central Energy Fund, its holding company, is said to be complete.

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)