South Africa News

Members of the National Union of Metalworkers march on the first day of a nationwide strike in Johannesburg, July 1, 2014.

What is happening in the Central African Republic and South Sudan today is, if you think of it, simply murder on a grand scale.

A new State witness was called in the trial of Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir and five others in the High Court in Johannesburg, sitting in Palm Ridge, on Tuesday.

I have heard many arguments for, and against, the death penalty. The fact remains that many South Africans would like it to be reinstated for crimes so evil in Nature, that South Africans unite in revulsion and sorrow.

Tourist Geoff Pullan got a "pleasant surprise" when he spotted this sofa next to a bench in a park in Marlow.

Cyclists traversing Johannesburg in the former South African president's honor wore T-shirts with one of his many inspiring quotations, along with a glaring typographical error in the word "freedom."

Those people who are anti-transformation and anti-justice have created a "Mandela" to hide behind in order to protect what they have, writes Esethu Hasane .

Why do some people prefer to stay ignorant about politics, while others explode when you mention some of our leaders' faults? asks Gomotsegang Motswatswe .

Why do some people prefer to stay ignorant about politics, while others explode when you mention some of our leaders' faults? asks Gomotsegang Motswatswe .

In this photo taken July 20, 2014, Chantel and Elwin Morris pose with a photo of their son, Taegrin, at their home in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg.

Why do some people prefer to stay ignorant about politics, while others explode when you mention some of our leaders' faults? asks Gomotsegang Motswatswe .

In an appeal from the pulpit, the Rev. Al Sharpton is demanding justice for a man who died after an apparent police chokehold.

The mines account for over half of the company's workforce but only a quarter of production and their viability was dealt a blow when miners won pay increases of up to 20 percent.

A four-year-old boy trapped by his seatbelt was dragged to his death behind a hijacked car in South Africa, leaving his traumatised mother screaming at the side of the road, police and media said Monday.

A four-year-old boy has died after being dragged outside a hijacked car in Boksburg, Gauteng police said on Sunday.

I laughed out loud many times during the first episode of the school yard comedy Jonah from Tonga , even as I wondered if the mad genius of Chris Lilley may have gone to the same well one time too many.

It is embarrassing to see current leadership that do not even live by Madiba's values brag and talk confidently about their 67 minutes, says Noluvuyo Mpekelana .

Five rhino poachers - one left injured after a shoot-out - have been arrested at the Phinda Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Sunday.

He was South Africa's last white president, overshadowed by Nelson Mandela when they plotted the historic transition to a multi-racial democracy for which both men won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

When a wildcat strike hit Impala Platinum's Marula mine in South Africa's Limpopo province this month, union leaders there had no idea it was coming.