South Africa News

Work on stadiums for next year's World Cup was halted today when 70,000 South African builders launched an indefinite strike.

The number of swine flu cases reported in South Africa has gone up to 47, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Wednesday.

The ANC on Friday said it would "not like to be drawn" into any "speculative discussions" about the future of its embattled former spokesperson, Carl Niehaus.

Police used a stun grenade to disperse a group of strikers near Cape Town's Green Point stadium on Thursday morning, a police spokesperson said.

President Barack Obama greets South African President Jacob Zuma, right, Friday, July 10, 2009, during the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy.

South Africa's mix of English and Dutch law needs to be "Africanised" to make it more relevant, Cape Judge President John Hlophe said in Durban last night.

Hundreds of striking workers demonstrated at World Cup stadiums across South Africa on Thursday, with some stoning cars and passers-by as they demanded higher wages for those building the stadiums and rail stations for Africa's first World Cup.

Dumisani Rebombo wasn't circumcised, did chores considered girls' work and was sick of being taunted for not being a man.

Judges have resolved to tackle court delays and lengthy case backlogs, Chief Justice Pius Langa said on Wednesday at the end of a four-day conference in Pretoria.

An SA Roadlink bus that crashed in Beaufort West did not have a permit to travel on the N1 freeway, Western Cape police said today.

Dozens of disgruntled construction workers protested on several roads in Johannesburg on Thursday, Ekurhuleni Metro police said.

A police commissioner whose police station has been accused of manipulating crime statistics will be charged with corruption and defeating the ends of justice, the ministry of police said on Wednesday.

The Group of Five major developing nations said here on Wednesday that the successful conclusion of the Doha Round trade talks would be conducive to restore market confidence, urging to address legitimate aspirations of the developing countries.

JOHANNESBURG: A top Indian diplomat here has dismissed suggestions in sections of the Indian media that the death of an Indian IT worker in an armed robbery had a racial motive.

A KwaZulu-Natal ATM bomber was sentenced to 74 years in jail, police said on Wednesday.

Post mortems were being carried out today on the eight victims of an SA Roadlink bus crash in Beaufort West, Western Cape police said.

If you're on medical aid - you're among just 14-percent of South Africans who have access to private healthcare.

A Boksburg woman has appeared in court for murder after allegedly pouring petrol over her husband while he was smoking, Beeld newspaper reported on Tuesday.

TERRIBLE LOSS: Kiran's brother B. Ganesh collecting his passport in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts postponed a hearing on a damning report into a Cape Town housing project on Tuesday after an "incoherent" response from the officials responsible for the project.