South Africa News

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.

Gwynne Dyer Eagle-eyed Columnist analyses global issues It was ostensibly about obscenity, but it was really about corruption and censorship - and in the end, justice prevailed.

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 ...

By Xolani Mbanjwa and Bronwynne Jooste Staff Reporters Farmers in De Doorns have rejected allegations that they are paying Zimbabwean immigrants lower than the minimum wage and are therefore responsible for the xenophobic attacks that erupted in the region this week.

South African Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson will star as Winnie Mandela in a film to be made in 2010 in South Africa, Ma-Afrika Films said on Friday.

Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi told hospital chief executives and managers on Thursday to shape up or they will be removed.

The wives of four South African men abducted on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, nearly three years ago have made an emotional plea for help to President Jacob Zuma.

The Western Cape government was more concerned about the media than the well-being of the De Doorns xenophobia victims, refugee rights group Passop claimed.

BRITISH tourists whose truck crashed in a safari park in Cape Town, South Africa managed to scare off a pack of lions by throwing their shoes at them.

The cost and use of the police jet bought last year was defended by Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa in Pretoria.