South Africa News

A magistrate drops charges against the boyfriend accused in the brutal gang-rape and killing of a teenager that shocked South Africans.

Carl Pistorius, the older brother of South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, was acquitted of culpable homicide over a deadly road crash five years ago.

The Sars audit specialist who is testifying in the tax fraud trial of businesswoman Shauwn Mpisane admitted on Monday that her bosses had questioned the credibility of her audit.

All primary school pupils will have to learn an African language as soon as next year according to the national Department of Basic Education.

Former President John Agyekum Kufour on Monday returned home from South Africa and Switzerland after engagements to woo investors to Africa.

South Africa's rand hit new four-year lows on Monday after Mercedes-Benz said workers at an assembly plant had staged an illegal strike and a government-allied union demanded big wage hikes for coal and gold miners.

FROM THE INSIDE: Two former gangsters take a break in a centre, set by the Western Cape Community Outreach organisation, where they are going through a programme to help them cut themselves off from lives of crime then rejoin society.

Some people believe the DA will reinstate Apartheid should they win the national elections.

Some people believe the DA will reinstate Apartheid should they win the national elections.

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The woman who hired two men to burn down her love rival's house was found guilty of murder and arson on Friday.

Five months after Janine Meiring's newborn son Donavan died, just a few hours after he slipped from her body and bounced on the floor at a Pretoria hospital on Christmas Eve, she is still struggling to get answers and a death certificate.

Six years after its 2007 Seoul run, South Africa's iconic musical "Umoja: The Spirit of Togetherness" is back in Korea to show off the country's colorful and explosive culture, deeply linked to its stormy history.

A man rides his bike past the Lonmin mine outside Rustenburg, in the northwest of Johannesburg, on Nov.

Apartheid South Africa looked after white people and nobody else. Now some of its white communities face a level of deprivation, or of violence, which threatens their future in the country.

DIDCOT'S iconic cooling towers should live on as an adventure park and giant mural, according to a woman inspired by a redundant power plant in South Africa.

A woman believed to be South African has been arrested in India after apparently being found with 26kg of drugs on being searched by officials at Mumbai International Airport.

This picture courtesy of the Gupta family shows Vela Gupta and her husband Indian-born Aaskash Jahajgarhia posing with relatives and guests during ceremonies for their wedding in Sun City, South Africa, on May 1, 2013.

President Jacob Zuma, political parties and the broadcasting community has expressed shock and sadness at the death of SABC presenter Vuyo Mbuli.

Sex workers in Durban on Friday welcomed the call by the Commission for Gender Equality for the decriminalisation of sex work.