South Africa News

Mandela "was a kind of person that you were so in awe of until you were almost stymied in your ability to speak with him on an ordinary level," she said in an interview this summer.

The man dubbed the Unofficial President of the World could bring adoring crowds out onto the streets like no-one else on the planet.

A woman walks past a painting with the face of former South African president Nelson Mandela, central, in a street that sells African style art to tourist in the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013.

Protestors burn cardboard and refuse as they demonstrate against a lack of housing and other services outside provincial government buildings in central Cape Town, October 30, 2013.

The South African Cabinet on Thursday ordered that an inter-ministerial task team report on the funding of controversial security upgrades to President Jacob Zuma 's private home be released to the public.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend the European premiere of the highly anticipated film Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom.

Syfy is using "Dominion" as the working title. I'm certain there's an excellent reason they're not just calling it "Legion."

Two people were killed when their bakkie collided with a police vehicle in heavy rain in Standerton, a Mpumalanga government official said on Wednesday.

Thuli Madonsela, whose position of public protector is the equivalent of an ombudsman, responded to calls from the ruling party, the African National Congress, to release her report on the money spent on Zuma's home, after some details of the report were leaked.

Ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela is not "doing well" but is continuing to put up a courageous fight from his "deathbed," members of his family have told the South African Broadcasting Corporation in an interview.

Law firm Eversheds has announced a tie up with Mahons Attorneys in South Africa which will give the firm bases in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Port Louis in Mauritius.

Africa's finest MC and multiple award winning artist, Sarkodie, yesterday shot his latest music video in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Battling consumers will have to tighten their belts this festive season, with the first in a series of fuel price hikes kicking in at midnight on Tuesday.

The Dave Matthews Band just completed their third and final show of a short swing through South Africa, the country where Dave was born.

The government of Botswana has quietly allowed international companies to explore for natural gas in some of the country's most sensitive national parks using the controversial drilling method of hydraulic fracturing, according to a new documentary released in South Africa.

The use of modern antiretroviral therapies to treat HIV infections in South Africa has spent billions of dollars to yield savings--millions of life years.

"Long Walk to Freedom", a film based on the life of Nelson Mandela, has became South Africa's all-time highest grossing picture after its opening last week, production company Videovision Entertainment said Tuesday.

After years of delay, protests and legal action, a tolling system finally came into force Tuesday on a large part of the freeway network of South Africa's richest province, Gauteng, amid threats by opponents to continue the fight against the tolls which they warn could cost the ruling African National Congress votes in next year's elections.

This was the evidence of Warrant Officer Musa Ndlela at the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday when the Griffiths trial resumed.

Former Gauteng housing MEC Humphrey Mmemezi's driver was found guilty by the Krugersdorp Magistrate's Court on Tuesday of negligent and reckless driving.