South Africa News

On June 16, 1976, some 20,000 students rose up to protest in the slum of Soweto on the outskirts of Johannesburg.

A Metered-taxi driver who allegedly preyed on women hitch-hikers in the Midlands, robbing and raping them after offering them a lift, fired his legal aid attorney in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday - because she is a woman.

A woman is recovering after being attacked with a hammer while trying to protect a rescued dog that her neighbour was beating with a plank on Saturday night.

South Africa remains a top source and a top destination of trafficking victims. And according to the international body, human trafficking is the world's third most profitable crime, after illicit drugs and arms trafficking.

The Maslow Hotel is Sun International's new, modern hotel, providing an oasis setting within Johannesburg's premium shopping area of Sandton.

Tito Mboweni, the former central bank governor of South Africa, has said that the country's government should consider buying one of the nation's banks to boost access to finance for citizens and businesses.

South Africa should be 'at war' with Mozambique because they doing nothing to stop its criminal citizens from plundering our wild natural resources, says Ron Thomson .

A woman who was acquitted of defrauding the Road Accident Fund became hysterical in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Tuesday and disrupted proceedings.

Ghanaian TV host Joselyn Dumas will be a special guest at The African Park Show beginning September 19th in Johannesburg, South Africa.

On Monday night's edition of his PBS show, Charlie Rose aired an interview with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal that he conducted in Doha, Qatar over the weekend and Meshaal took the insane and ridiculous step of comparing himself and the Palestinian people to what Nelson Mandela and South Africa went through under apartheid.

The son of an aged Richmond farm couple spent a week in a psychiatric hospital after his parents and brother were tortured and killed, the Pietermaritzburg High Court heard on Tuesday.

It was redemption and relief for a Maritzburg man when he was acquitted of murder and assault by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday.

President Barack Obama spoke out on Monday against gender oppression in Africa that he said is "crippling" parts of the continent, urging young leaders there to empower women and eliminate traditions like female genital mutilation and violence against women.

Arrests have yet to be made in connection with an alleged road rage attack in Fourways, Johannesburg, Gauteng police said on Tuesday.

A man has been arrested for allegedly shooting a City of Cape Town traffic officer outside his home in Rocklands in March.

Two students from Rhodes University have drowned after a boat in which they were canoeing capsized at Settlers Dam just outside Grahamstown, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.

Mining group Exxaro Resources said on Monday it had acquired the South African coal assets of France's Total for $472 million, bolstering its output and giving it extra capacity at the world's largest export terminal.

Two students accused of assaulting a fellow student on the University of the Free State's Bloemfontein campus pleaded not guilty in the local regional court on Monday to all charges against them.

Two police constables appeared in the Nelspruit Magistrate's Court on Monday for allegedly soliciting a bribe, Mpumalanga police said.

No motorsport fan likes to see a classic race track get bulldozed, but the land these tracks occupy is often valuable, so there's typically no shortage of developers waiting in the wings for an operator to falter.