South Africa News

The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius is changing South Africa's media ecology. It is the country's first criminal trial to be covered fully on social media and live television, and both journalists and judges have had to learn new rules and practices on the fly.

Ten people were killed in a crash involving a taxi and a truck loaded with potatoes in South Africa's Free State Thursday, police said.

A Mpumalanga amputee was jailed for life by the Nelspruit Circuit of the North Gauteng High Court on Thursday for shooting and killing his wife.

A lone policeman on duty at a police station in a Boland village was shot dead on Wednesday night by criminals who robbed the station of five firearms.

Oscar Pistorius looks straight ahead as he listens to evidence being given in court in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, April 16, 2014.

The DA's election adverts will be aired by the SABC following a hearing by the Complaints and Compliance Committee, the Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday.

In just a few weeks, South Africans head to the polls to vote in parliamentary elections.

Kai Staats is an entrepreneur, writer, filmmaker and now student at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cosmology Research Group, Cape Town, South Africa where he is working to earn his masters degree in applied mathematics.

President Jacob Zuma was booed while on stage during the ANC's election rally at Malamulele, Limpopo, on Wednesday, according to reports.

Johannesburg - South Africans have confidence in the governing African National Congress, party treasurer general Zweli Mkhize said on Wednesday.

The global theatre phenomenon, WAR HORSE will be making its South African premire later this year, beginning with a season at The Teatro at Montecasino in Johannesburg in October before transferring to the Artscape Opera House in Cape Town in December.

In 1893, in the bustling seaside city of Durban, South Africa - then under British colonial rule - a young lawyer stepped off a ship from India, eager to try his professional luck far away from home.

A 19-year-old woman whose son was found wandering on the N1 freeway near the Grasmere offramp was granted bail in the Vereeniging Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, said Gauteng traffic police.

Yet, legal analysts said Tuesday, expert witnesses who will testify for the defense could undermine the prosecution's efforts to prove Pistorius killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on purpose after an argument.

The Airports Company of South Africa has made a clean sweep in the 2014 Skytrax World Airport Awards with Joburg's OR Tambo International, Durban's King Shaka International Airport - and Cape Town International taking top honors.

A man was killed while trying to run away from an alleged robber in Parkdene, George, Western Cape police said on Tuesday.

Nigeria pledged on Tuesday to deploy more than 6,000 police and soldiers to protect a World Economic Forum on Africa in Abuja next month, a day after a bomb attack by suspected Islamist militants on the capital's outskirts killed dozens.

Guinea's Foreign Minister Francois Fall said on Monday the West African country had brought the spread of the deadly Ebola virus under control after more than 100 people died.

South Africa's Vodacom and MTN will buy mobile-phone subscribers from Nashua Mobile for 2.26 billion rand after the service provider deemed its business model unsustainable.

April 12, 2014 - The South African Pipe Band season started on a beautiful, warm autumn day, perfect for piping at the Lyttelton Manor Gathering.