South Africa News

There's been a great deal of hand wringing in South Africa in the aftermath of the Marikana massacre.

The African Union on Saturday marked 50 years since the founding of a continentwide organization that helped liberate Africa from colonial masters and which now is trying to stay relevant on a continent regularly troubled by conflict.

RichardStocktonCollege physical therapy professor Mary Lou Galantino has been added to the roster of Fulbright specialists for her expertise in HIV-AIDS rehabilitation, cancer rehabilitation and integrative medicine.

It was the first day of the 2010 Soccer World Cup, and Bafana Bafana scored a goal in the opening match against Mexico.

Striking South African workers at a chrome mine owned by German chemicals group Lanxess have signed a deal to end a week-long illegal walkout, after winning a one-off payment from the latest company to give in to militant labour pressure.

Alternative accommodation has to be provided for thousands of illegal squatters occupying private land in Klerksdorp, North West, the High Court in Pretoria ordered on Friday.

Oscar Pistorius was more than a national hero. His success came to symbolise South Africa's triumph over apartheid.

"I thought she would come back home safely." These were Vinolia Kekana's sad words after she had just learnt about her friend Philasande Ngum's death.

It is difficult to know what to think of the African Union, just as it is hard to assess the performance of the United Nations.

Eastern Cape teachers who planned to take the basic education department to court for non-payment have been paid, the department said on Friday.

The wife of a Welkom policeman killed near his office in November last year has been arrested in connection with his murder, Free State police said on Friday.

A KwaZulu-Natal man was sentenced by the Vryheid Regional Court to 18 years in jail for raping a 12-year-old girl, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Friday.

The Congress of SA Trade Unions is studying the court ruling halting its planned e-toll protest, it said on Friday.

TONY Stimson was dumbfounded when he came across the grave of a man his grandfather had shot dead in the Boer War.

The "justice" part of the criminal-justice system comes in for intense scrutiny, but the "criminal" part is, of course, just as important.

The Hawks police unit is investigating PetroSA, and a probe by the Central Energy Fund, its holding company, is said to be complete.

The IFP has won a ward seat from the ANC in Albert Luthuli municipality in a Mpumalanga by-election, IEC results have shown.

With freedom of expression under threat in South Africa again, Anton Harber recalls an electric confrontation between two Booker prize winners, JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, about the censorship of a third - Salman Rushdie It started on a Thursday midday, when the organiser of the Weekly Mail Book Week put the phone down, walked across the ... (more)

Green, bar-coded identity books will be replaced with identity smart cards from July, Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday.

Parliament will probably debate the deaths of initiates at the end of the month, the African National Congress chief whip's office said on Thursday.