South Africa News

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.

The SANDF is being dragged to court for allegedly failing to comply with a court order that prohibits it from discriminating against HIV-positive employees.

The latest quest by right-wing Afrikaners to establish their own racially pure state by seceding from South Africa is madness, writes Kameel Premhid .

Open Letter from the ANC to the Communist Party of Cuba Voice of America is reporting that South Africa has launched a campaign against US sanctions on Cuba.

Prisoners of War, a sci-fi thriller about humankind's last stand against an alien invasion, starring former Bond Girl Berenice Marlohe, is the latest Hollywood production set to shoot in South Africa.

President Barack Obama, who has said he was one of the untold millions of people around the world who were inspired by Mandela's life, is set to announce the name change at a town hall-style event on Monday in Washington with several hundred young leaders from across sub-Saharan Africa.

A program designed to foster a new generation of young African leaders will be renamed after former South African President Nelson Mandela, the White House said Sunday.

President Obama is re-naming an African fellowship program in honor of the late South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela.

The latest quest by right-wing Afrikaners to establish their own racially pure state by seceding from South Africa is madness, writes Kameel Premhid .

Excavations at an archaeological site at Kathu in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, one of the richest early prehistoric archaeological sites in South Africa, have produced tens of thousands of Earlier Stone Age artifacts, including hand axes and other tools.

Acting on a tip-off from crime intelligence, members of the Durban central field unit arrested a woman and two others who were with her when she was about to board a bus to Joburg last week.

The aim of any party should be to promote the welfare of the people who voted them into power, and not to undermine our constitution, writes Sizwe Mda .