South Africa News

Over a perfectly lovely cup of Sri Lankan tea in the literate saloon of their homey sailboat, Rainbow Gypsy, Cherry and Alec Yarrow recounted their voyage starting in Durban, South Africa that has landed them in Seward.

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A doctor was wounded at his home in Amandasig, Pretoria North, during a house robbery, Gauteng police said on Thursday.

A crew member aboard a rowboat currently attempting to break a world record has had to evacuate due to injury.

A leader of radical South African union AMCU was shot dead after being named in an inquiry into a deadly police crackdown during violent strikes at a platinum mine two years ago, a lawyer said Wednesday.

The Sharks swept the Highlanders before them in their qualifier by virtue of their powerful scrum but it is an area that the Crusaders, who possess their own heavy artillery, are likely to target in their semifinal.

Even the DA is losing face with their dominance as the main vice of the ANC, as the agenda of the EFF army is now winning the attention of a nation, writes Ben Moshatama .

A Pretoria police constable has been dismissed from the SA Police Service for assaulting a man and swearing at him during questioning, Gauteng police said on Wednesday.

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.