Pretoria, South Africa News

PRETORIA, South Africa: Displaying photographs of a bare-chested Oscar Pistorius standing in his garage on bloodied prosthetic legs and wearing shorts soaked in his girlfriend's blood, prosecutors attempted Friday to focus attention on the killing for which the double-amputee Olympian is on trial for murder, while the defense poked holes in the ... (more)

As the country faces the possibility of yet another wet weekend, emergency personnel in two provinces are searching for five children who have been swept away by the floods.

None of South Africa's nine provinces has declared a disaster caused by floods, Co-operative Governance Minister Lechesa Tsenoli said on Friday.

AT the Arcadia Centre in Madiba St, Pretoria, you can have your trousers altered, or buy ammunition designed to blow a hole in someone the size of a 50c piece.

A man was killed and his wife robbed on Friday during a house robbery in Cullinan, east of Pretoria, Gauteng police said.

Poynting, the largest wireless antenna designer and manufacturer in the country, had acquired African Union Communications for R49.5 million in a deal that would enable it to sell into the African market for the first time, the AltX-listed firm said yesterday.

South Africa earlier this week expelled three Rwandan officials from its embassy in Pretoria .

I admit it. I am afraid of white men who are strangers. This is especially the case when white men are in groups, but on occasions when I have seen a lone white man on a dark street at night, I have quickened my steps and crossed the road.

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's report on SABC Chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng is obsessed with vilifying him, a group of religious leaders said on Thursday.

What's better than the privilege of traveling on one of the world's most lavish trains? Receiving a complimentary hotel night at a stunning hotel to add onto your journey, that's what.

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He had covered his face before, when bloody photos flashed across court monitors of his own bathroom, where his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp lay after he shot her on Valentine's Day last year.

Heavy rain in South Africa's capital, the neighbouring main financial hub of Johannesburg and in the east of the country may further damage an economy weakened by labour strikes, high unemployment and power outages.

"The ANC has learnt with deep sadness of the passing of the mother of the late Solomon Mahlangu today in the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria," said spokesman Jackson Mthembu.

Throughout history various men and women have contemplated the concepts of life and death.

The New York City fire department says it has received a report of an explosion and building collapse in East Harlem.

The Economic Freedom Fighters used the money made from selling berets, T-shirts, posters, and donations from members to pay the deposit fee to contest the general elections, its leader Julius Malema said on Wednesday.

Congress of the People president Mosiuoa Lekota arrived at the Electoral Commission of SA's office on Wednesday an hour before the deadline for the submission of candidate lists.

Forensic investigator Johannes Vermeulen, with a cricket bat in hand, demonstrates on a mock-up toilet and door details of how the door could have been broken down, during the trial of Oscar Pistorius in court during the second week of his trial in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, March 12, 2014.

South Africa delivered a diplomatic slap to Rwanda on Wednesday, saying it would not tolerate attacks on its soil against exiled Rwandan opposition members, actions which Pretoria has linked to expelled diplomats from Rwanda's embassy.