South Africa

South Africa faces its future

Sunrise over Alexandra township is an unimposing affair. Night gently rolls itself away, revealing a rust-coloured smudge of wood-fire haze, hanging on the horizon above the hundreds of silhouetted...

Dragging death in South Africa sparks outrage

Sibongile Khumalo Mozambican taxi driver filmed being dragged by a police van in South Africa.

Miners burnt to death, shot in South Africa

Rodney Muhumuza Striking miners have killed one man by setting him on fire while another was fatally shot, apparently by police, in rekindled labour unrest in South Africa.

South Africa drops miner murder charges

South Africa says controversial murder charges against 270 miners over the deaths of fellow workers shot by police will be provisionally dropped.

Mine massacre: more than 30 miners killed in South Africa

South African police have killed close to 40 striking workers at a platinum mine owned by London-listed Lonmin.

Australian convicted of South Africa hitman plot

A South African court has convicted an Australian of attempted murder for trying to hire a hit-man to kill the father of a woman he had become obsessed with.

Polygamists cling to old ways in new South Africa

Manqoba Nxumalo, Johannesburg Robert Chauke had to buy a 22-seat bus to carry his enormous family, but it's still not big enough for his six wives and 26 children.

Tweets recall South Africa's shameful past

Robyn Dixon Two young models - one of them white, the other black - have exposed South Africa's racist underbelly.

South Africa water bombs public servants

The South African government shoots rubber pellets and water cannon at public sector workers striking for better pay.

Half of South Africa's kings set for the chop

PRETORIA: President Jacob Zuma has said South Africa will stop recognising half its ''traditional'' kings and queens, dismissing them as artificial creations of the apartheid regime.

Call for calm as South Africa prays for Nelson Mandela's health

South Africans prayed for the health of anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela on Thursday, more than 24 hours after the country's revered former leader and first black president entered hospital.

South Africa floods kill over 100

Flooding in eight of South Africa's nine provinces kills more than 100 people, and submerges around a million acres of land.

South Africa ready to throw out 1.2m who fled Mugabe

Brian Latham DURBAN: South Africa may start deporting more than 1.2 million Zimbabweans from April after they missed a deadline to legalise their residency, the South African organisation Lawyers For Human Rights...

British, US agencies spied on world leaders at G20

Scott Shane Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor turned whistleblower, has obtained a wider range of materials about US government surveillance than had been known, including one...

Nelson Mandela in hospital in serious condition

Former South African president Nelson Mandela, 94, has been readmitted to hospital with a renewed lung infection and is in ‘‘serious but stable’’ condition, the presidency said.

South Africans urged to let Mandela go

South Africa is praying for Nelson Mandela as the revered peace icon spends a second day in hospital, with calls for the family and the nation to "let him go".

Nelson Mandela victim of death hoax on Twitter

Nelson Mandela has become the latest victim of a celebrity death hoax, with Twitter buzzing with the incorrect information that the former South African president had died in his sleep.

'He's a fighter': Mandela’s condition remains serious

Nelson Mandela remains in a serious but stable condition, the South African government said on Monday, three days after the revered peace icon was rushed to hospital with a recurrent lung infection.