Johannesburg, South Africa News

Tshwane - While waiting in one of those interminable queues at a South African state hospital, Jullian Nwadu was asked when she was going back to Zimbabwe.

South Africa has enough hotel rooms for the football fans expected to descend on the country for the 2010 World Cup, tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Tuesday.

Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe is branded one of the world's "diabolical masterminds of sexual terror" in a report to be released Thursday on rapes of Zimbabwe's opposition supporters.

In South Africa, thousands of people most of them Zimbabweans have been seeking shelter at a Johannesburg church, which has become a haven for the homeless and marginalized.

South Africans say a new Hollywood film about sport and togetherness in racially divided South Africa provides a timely lesson as the country prepares to host next year's World Cup.

The police force will make South Africa safe for the 2010 World Cup and beyond, national Police Commissioner Bheki Cele said on Monday.

Johannesburg - Civil society organisations described Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church, where thousands of Zimbabweans have taken shelter, as unsustainable.

A MAN who spent nearly $700,000 visiting every country in the world as quickly as possible has returned with underwhelming snaps of his travels.

A Catholic priest was shot dead in a presbytery in Diesploot, north of Johannesburg, the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference said on Monday.

Union criticises casting of Morgan Freeman and Jennifer Hudson as Nelson Mandela and his ex-wife in separate films Winnie Mandela and Jennifer Hudson.

In the eclectic buzz of Africa's richest city, where run-down buildings abut sleek mining houses, is a gateway to a centuries-old world of giant tubers, herbs and musty animal parts.

Lesbians in South Africa are being dragged off the street and raped to "correct" them, it has been claimed.

A woman smokes a cigarette in Johannesburg, South Africa. The American Cancer Society said last month that rising smoking levels in Africa -- which are expected to double in some areas -- could cause a pandemic.

Various organisations paid tribute on Friday to struggle veteran Curtis Nkondo, South Africa's former high commissioner to Namibia, who died on Thursday.

JOHANNESBURG, 2 December 2009 - AIDS researchers, scientists and activists have welcomed the changes to South Africa's HIV/AIDS treatment policy, announced by President Jacob Zuma on World AIDS Day.

An array of interventions aimed at slowing the rate of new HIV infections in Africa has been tried over the last two decades.

South African health authorities are investigating how a two-year-old girl who burnt her arms instead had her legs amputated in hospital.

The asset-swap deal gives Aspen, South Africa's largest generic drug maker, the right to distribute Glaxo drugs in that country.

One of V Australia's fleet of planes for the long haul to the US. There were roller girls in denim hotpants, a conga band belting out rhythms, a slew of celebrities and a lone State Government minister in the international departures area of Melbourne airport this morning to send off Virgin's fledgling long haul carrier, V Australia, on its ...

Graeme Hosken Crime Report An international drug syndicate plying its trade through South Africa has been smashed in a predawn raid over the weekend.