South Africa News

Opening statements were set to begin Friday in the court-martial of an Army general accused of sexually assaulting a captain under his command with whom he had a three-year affair.

Jacob Zuma's tenure should be marked by a foreign policy that can at best be described as being schizophrenic, writes Kameel Premhid .

South Africa expelled three Rwandan diplomats it linked to a raid by gunmen on a dissident exiled Rwandan general's home and Rwanda ordered out six South African envoys in retaliation, a diplomatic source said on Friday.

Two South African policemen have been suspended after cellphone footage of them assaulting a man suspected of robbery in Cape Town caused public outrage after being posted online, senior officers said on Friday.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. - Our live audience Thursday was from Catholic Charities of Eastern Virginia and the Peninsula Agency on Aging.

Oscar Pistorius, foreground, sits in the dock during his trial at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, March 7, 2014.

A 31-year-old policewoman made a brief appearance in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate's Court on Thursday, charged with the murder of her alleged boyfriend, who was also a cop.

Not about the medical procedures - she already had two children - but about talking to the nurse.

Pretoria: Seven Network journalist Chris Reason and cameraman Rob Brown feel lucky to have escaped without injury after being robbed at knife point on the streets of South Africa this week.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo will perform Sunday in Boulder and Wednesday in Fort Collins.

Four people appeared in court on Wednesday in connection with the murder of a Richmond farming couple and their son.

Blackouts started rolling across parts of South Africa on Thursday after a week's worth of rain soaked the coal supply of the country's state-run power company, making it too wet to burn.

Double murder accused Johannes Christiaan de Jager fabricated a stranger to distance himself from a crime that happened, the Western Cape High Court heard on Thursday.

Four police constables were arrested on Thursday for allegedly stealing groceries and selling them to a woman, Mpumalanga police said.

South African police say there has been another unsuccessful attempt on the life of a former Rwandan army chief of staff who has been living in exile in the country for the past four years.

A 40-year-old taxi boss was shot dead on Chris Hani Road near the Southgate Mall in Soweto, Gauteng police said on Thursday.

Brazil resolutely spanked South Africa in Johannesburg last night, winning 0-5 in a friendly courtesy of a Neymar hat-trick and a goal apiece from Oscar and Fernandinho.

Widespread rain across the north of the country has left at least five people dead, with the weather service issuing further warnings of flooding.

Improvements in prevention of mother to child transmission in South Africa are not translating into a reduction in maternal deaths due to HIV infection, according to a 15-year review of a large district referral hospital in Johannesburg, the 2014 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections heard on Wednesday in Boston.

Oscar Pistorius leaves North Gauteng High Court amid a media scrum after the second day of his trial accused of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on March 4, 2014 in Pretoria, South Africa.