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The power had been out for three days so there was no music and most of the apple cider and beer was warm, but the party was in full swing by early Saturday afternoon at Dodo's Tavern, an unlicensed shebeen that is the centre of community life in a wretchedly poor area of the biggest black township in South Africa.

This year [2006] marks the 30th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa, which marked the start of the fall of apartheid, and inspired activists worldwide.

America's newest Miss USA is leaving a white collar job behind for a world of glamour in her new role - and she can't wait.

Five people were killed and four others injured in a head-on collision on the R102 in Mnini near Umkomaas, KwaZulu-Natal, on Sunday, paramedics said.

I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1964, the year Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Civil Rights Act was passed in the United States, and Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison.

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As the G8 summit gets under way, potentially embarrassing leaked documents claim the UK spied on G20 politicians in 2009.

The battle for the control of Gauteng kicked off in earnest this week, with DA leader Helen Zille vowing the party could, would and must win the province next year.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is engaging with his family and seeing improvement from the recurring lung infection that forced him to spend a ninth day in the hospital Sunday, the president said.

It started as a weekend outing for the King family, on their way from the Eastern Cape in a Toyota Tazz to watch the Top Gear Festival.

Mzee Joseph Kimbowa was a big contractor who had made his name in the 1960s and '70s through his firm, Kimbowa Building and Constructors, founded in 1950.

The revelation that a top former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to those who knew 94-year-old Michael Karkoc.

Giorgio Nava, an Italian chef based in South Africa, won the World Pasta Championship in the Italian city of Parma on Saturday with a low-cost recipe that he said suited Italy's deep economic crisis.

The Muslim Lawyers Association in Johannesburg has called for the arrest and prosecution of President Obama for war crimes and genocide when he arrives in South Africa later this month.

Nelson Mandela''s daughter Zenani Dlamini and other relatives arrive at the MediClinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria, where Nelson Mandela has spent a week receiving treatment for a lung infection Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is recovering well from a lung infection which has kept him in a serious condition in ... (more)

Regional presidents have begun a special summit on Zimbabwe after President Robert Mugabe set crucial elections for the end of July.

Firefighters advanced against a monstrous wildfire outside of Colorado Springs, expanding containment lines and lifting evacuation orders for thousands of anxious residents in the most destructive blaze in state... Firefighters advanced against a monstrous wildfire outside of Colorado Springs, expanding containment lines and lifting evacuation ... (more)

Patience Mama G Ozokwo has been touring Johannesburg to sign the new iROKOtv DVDs which will be making their debut across market places and local shops throughout Johannesburg.

Up to 4,000 mineworkers staged a sit-in strike at an Anglo American Platinum mine in South Africa's restive platinum belt Friday over the suspension of four leaders, a union representative told AFP.

The landscape transformed as we neared Cape Town. Mountainous scrubland that could have been plucked from a Hollywood Western gave way to the vineyards of Hex River Valley, the source of 20 percent of South Africa's wine production.