South Africa News

From The Algemeiner : "Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, a member of the South African Parliament and founder of the African Christian Democratic Party , sees irony in how the anti-Israel attitudes of his country's mainstream politicians are depriving them of benefits the Jewish state could bring them.

A man who died after a fitness test in KwaZulu-Natal last year succumbed because of an epileptic attack, a commission of inquiry heard on Wednesday.

KwaZulu-Natal community safety MEC Willies Mchunu on Wednesday welcomed the 25-year jail sentence the Durban High Court handed to the man who murdered Kloof resident Rodney Bradley.

The government expressed dismay on Wednesday that there were still citizens who did not want to integrate into a democratic South Africa.

The reported racial exclusion policies of Kleinfontien farm settlement, near Pretoria, will be the target of a Democratic Alliance Youth protest on Thursday.

"It is an obligation in terms of section 34 of the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act to report criminal activities as listed in the document," DA MPL Chris Hattingh said in a statement.

The University of KwaZulu-Natal has announced that starting next year, all entering students must study Zulu .

The U.S. gets hit the most, but South Africa, Bangladesh, and Canada also see a fair amount of twisters.

Reba McEntire has physically been in Cape Town, South Africa, but her heart has been with those suffering in her home state of Oklahoma.

Fifteen years after being acquitted in the sensational R31.4 million SBV robbery, a Durban businessman now faces possible life imprisonment for murder after a nine-year-old girl and her grandmother were killed in a hand grenade attack while sleeping.

A controversial BBC report on white South Africans has been condemned by the ANC and the DA for being incongruent with the reality in the country.

Chinese visitors usually opted to book package deals or tours of New Zealand, with the Bay of Islands, Rotorua and Queenstown.

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.