South Africa News

Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.

Fifteen police officers of the Durban dog unit were injured when their state-marked Quantum taxi collided with a bakkie in Newlands East, Durban on Tuesday, KwaZulu-Natal paramedics said.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called an extraordinary meeting of the world governing body's executive committee following the incidents which occurred during the World Cup play-offs. At the top of the list of topics to be discussed is likely to be Thierry Henry's handball in the France versus Republic of Ireland game.

There is a strong possibility some areas in Johannesburg may experience floods following the rainy week, warn the city's emergency services.

It was a meteor which lit up the skies over Johannesburg and Pretoria on Saturday night, an astronomer has confirmed.

Two people were killed in different incidents related to heavy rains in Port Shepstone on Thursday, SABC news reported.

The United States is "deeply concerned" by reports that South African "military instructors" are training militiamen backed by the ruling junta in Guinea, a US official said Thursday.

JOHANNESBURG, 21 November 2009 - South Africans are dying younger and in greater numbers, and HIV/AIDS is to blame, according to a report released this week by the South African Institute of Race Relations.

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Associated Press Writer= When Henry Spelman found out he'd won a Rhodes Scholarship, his first call was to his girlfriend.

Cape Town - Up to 2 700 Zimbabwean asylum seekers have set up a temporary "safety camp" in a rural South African town following attacks on their shacks in a dispute about jobs, a human rights group said on Wednesday.

The Young Communist League of South Africa wants to talk to the ANC Youth League about its president Julius Malema's insults against South African Communist Party general secretary Jeremy Cronin.

Ugandan officials say they are offended that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised former dictator Idi Amin.

Detectives investigating Africa's biggest drugs haul suspect that the three South Africans and three Britons allegedly involved are well funded and have connections in China, the Middle East, South America and Europe who could help them evade justice.

A group of tourists, including a West Midlands couple, has launched legal action against a South African safari park after being trapped by a pride of lions.

South Africaa s main agriculture and farming union has expressed concern about the bilateral investment treaty agreed with Zimbabwe, which is set to exclude South African owned farms that were expropriated by the Robert Mugabe regime during the chaotic land a reforma programme.

A total of 20 people were injured in five separate accidents in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday and Saturday, paramedics said.

Former Stellenbosch student Jacobus Eksteen, accused of raping and killing fellow-student Erin Van Rensburg, is to go on trial in the Cape High Court next year.

A group of senior government officials is to assess the state of South Africa's 354 public hospitals, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said.

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 ...