Along with Thabo Mbeki, the former president, she bears key responsibility for the African National Congress government’s delaying for years the distribution of...

The lucky ones survive with mutilated penises and shameful scars for the rest of their lives, but that’s the high price boys in rural South Africa pay to become a...

It’s tragic what poverty will force people to do, but what’s happening in South Africa is more than tragic it’s criminal. In eastern Cape province,...

The bull was badly outnumbered, and while its muscular body, thick black hide and rock-hard horns offered significant advantages, this was not a brawl the animal was...

What might be more vital for a human being than a breath of air? In the third millennium said to be a paramount of achievements humankind having climbed to a date,...

In Clint Eastwood’s new movie Invictus, opening Friday, Morgan Freeman is South African icon Nelson Mandela, the closest thing to a saint a politician is allowed...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Homeless South Africans complained they were being forced from the streets of Cape Town to make way for a host of star-studded, glamorous...

Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, has prompted anger with a reported R65m (£5.3m) expansion of his personal residence in one of the country’s poorest...

Homeless South Africans complained on Thursday they were being forced from the streets of Cape Town to make way for a host of star-studded, glamorous events surrounding...

The 2010 World Cup in South Africa is expected to be blessed by the slaughter of one cow in each of its stadiums, the Makhonya Royal Trust proposed last week The move...

What a horrible, horrible mistake,the one which cannot be reversed in anyway.There cannot be any condoning of such blunders. Thembisa Koimetsi a 2 year old perfectly...

Although Zimbabwe’s internal political situation has improved marginally, the millions of Zimbabweans who have fled the country’s economic collapse continue to...

Last year we all had to go through the mediation by Thabo Mbeki of the Zimbabwean governmental crisis, and although the former South African President was able to have...

The Israeli Mossad has cleverly crafted a reputation of being uber-skilled and the Alpha of intelligences agencies. But this is all hype and as a former director of the...

South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential, the...

Predominately white trade union Solidarity is taking South Africa’s government to court, alleging racial discrimination in the police force.

South Africa’s deputy police minister has stood by his force’s tough, shoot-to-kill policy, days after a three-year-old boy was shot dead by...

An ugly race row has left South Africa’s national power company leaderless and is threatening to turn the lights out in the country only nine months before it is...

There is a new man in South Africa,” proclaims a new ad splashed across South African media, aiming to transform ideas about sexuality and to enlist the...

The viability of an effort endorsed by the United Nations to halt the trading of the so-called blood diamonds that have fueled conflicts across Africa is on the line...