MAKHADO MINE: FLASHPOINT FOR TENSIONS OVER SOUTH AFRICA'S PRO-COAL POLICIES

A campaign by locals and farming businesses to halt a large opencast mine highlights a far wider conflict over South Africa's continued addiction to coal... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA: WHITE MEN IN COURT OVER COFFIN ATTACK

The degrading attack sparked demonstrations and caused outrage on social media with hundreds of South Africans condemning the men's behaviour under the hashtag coffinAlive... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMY NEEDS RADICAL TRANSFORMATION, ZUMA SAYS

Radical economic transformation remains at the core of our economic strategy, Zuma said in his keynote address... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA'S ANC MARKS 105 YEARS AMID DEEP DIVISIONS

South Africa's ruling African National Congress is marking 105 years since it was formed but there are deep divisions in the ranks of Africa's oldest liberation movement... READ MORE›

JACOB ZUMA'S EX-WIFE GIVEN BOOST IN SOUTH AFRICA LEADERSHIP RACEA

Zuma has previously said that South Africa is ready for a female president... READ MORE›

ZUMA'S EX-WIFE GETS BOOST IN SOUTH AFRICA LEADERSHIP RACE

The chances of South African President Jacob Zuma's ex-wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, becoming the next leader of the African National Congress were given a... READ MORE›

DIRTY LAUNDRY: WASHING LINE ART HIGHLIGHTS SOUTH AFRICA'S RAPE EPIDEMIC

While South Africa undisputedly has the highest rates of rape in the world, estimates on the number of assaults each day vary greatly... READ MORE›

BEING A 'SUPERHERO': HIV VACCINE VOLUNTEERS

Being a 'superhero' the south african volunteers trialing a hiv vaccine... READ MORE›

JACOB ZUMA: SOUTH AFRICA'S 'TEFLON PRESIDENT' ESCAPES PARTY BACKLASH

South African President Jacob Zuma has escaped a potential no-confidence vote by members of his ANC party... READ MORE›

A.N.C. REJECTS CALLS FOR JACOB ZUMA TO QUIT SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENCY

It lost control of major cities, including Johannesburg and Pretoria, in local elections, and experts attributed the results to Mr. Zuma's poor standing... READ MORE›

FIDEL CASTRO, A SOUTH AFRICAN HERO

Angola survived in large part because Cuba sent its soldiers to give their lives for the freedom of the people of Angola, Namibia and South Africa... READ MORE›

LARGEST AND MOST ADVANCED HIV VACCINE TRIAL TO START IN SOUTH AFRICA

The new vaccine aims to provide greater and more sustained protection and has been adapted to the HIV subtype that predominates in southern Africa... READ MORE›

MILITARY VETERANS TRAIN RANGERS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Military veterans have found a new role in south Africa's poaching war... READ MORE›

PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA REPORTEDLY FACES NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE

South Africa's scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma is facing a vote of no confidence by the ruling party's executive committee, media reported on Monday... READ MORE›

NEW HIV VACCINE TRIAL TO START IN SOUTH AFRICA

The new vaccine aims to provide greater and more sustained protection and has been adapted to the HIV subtype that predominates in southern Africa... READ MORE›

BORN A CRIME: TREVOR NOAH CHARTS HIS RISE FROM SOUTH AFRICA'S TOWNSHIPS

But there was an extraordinary buffer between this brutal world and Noah, as his autobiography, Born a Crime Stories from a South African Childhood, makes clear... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE NAB CHINESE MAN WITH 18 RHINO HORNS

GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA - South African police Thursday said they had arrested a Hong Kong-bound Chinese man found with 18 rhino horns hidden in his luggage... READ MORE›

MIDDELBURG: PROTESTS OVER SOUTH AFRICA COFFIN ASSAULT

Hundreds of South Africans condemned the white men's behaviour on social media under the hashtag coffinAlive... READ MORE›

PROTESTS OUTSIDE SOUTH AFRICAN COURT AS MEN CHARGED OVER COFFIN ATTACK

The victim, Victor Rethabile Mlotshwa outside Middleburg court... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE AND ANTI-ZUMA PROTESTERS CLASH IN PRETORIA

South African police and anti-Zuma protesters clash in Pretoria... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICANS CALL FOR PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA TO RESIGN

Separate rallies were also held in Pretoria by South Africa's two biggest opposition parties, the Democratic Alliance and the Economic Freedom Fighters... READ MORE›

A DOCUMENTARY RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT 'SLAVERY' IN SOUTH AFRICA'S VINEYARDS

Falling foul of Scandinavian consumers is a grim prospect for South African winemakers, and members of the industry have come out swinging... READ MORE›

HOW BIKE LANES IN SOUTH AFRICA ARE STIRRING UP DEBATE ABOUT RACISM AND CLASS

There was just one problem with the new bike lanes No one seemed to know what to do with them... READ MORE›

'LOOK LIKE A GIRL A?? THINK LIKE A MAN'

Bic South Africa posted the ad on its Facebook page to celebrate national women's day... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA FREEZES TUITION FEES AFTER PROTESTS

I'm so excited, said Nonsikelelo Nako, 24, a student from the University of South Africa who was participating in the march... READ MORE›

CAN THULISILE MADONSELA SAVE SOUTH AFRICA FROM ITSELF

Madonsela was appointed South Africa's public protector by Zuma himself in 2009 and is used to controversy... READ MORE›

PROTESTS OVER BLACK GIRLS' HAIR REKINDLE DEBATE ABOUT RACISM IN SOUTH AFRICA

Outrage over the Pretoria girls' claims is part of a broader debate that has gained traction in South Africa in the past year... READ MORE›

FIRST BLACK LEADER OF SOUTH AFRICAS OPPOSITION SEEKS TO UNSEAT THE ANC

He grew up in Soweto, South Africa's best-known black township, his father working for a company that makes locks and his mother as a cashier... READ MORE›

USING SOUTH AFRICAA??S VERSION OF THE N-WORD MAY SOON MEAN JAIL TIME

JOHANNESBURG -- After thieves broke into her car, a white South African motorist lashed out at the responding black police officers... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA HIGH COURT SAYS ALLOWING BASHIR TO LEAVE VIOLATED CONSTITUTION

Bashir, who had been in South Africa to attend an African Union meeting with other African leaders, was already halfway to Khartoum, Sudan's capital... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA BARS AMERICAN PASTOR WHO CALLS GAY PEOPLE 'PERVERTS'

After the outcry from the LGBT community, Anderson said he didn't plan to focus on the issue of homosexuality while in South Africa... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA'S GOVERNMENT IS AT WAR WITH ITSELF

When it became clear that prosecutors were actually planning to charge a sitting finance minister, the rand plummeted, along with many South Africans' stomachs... READ MORE›

WHITE SCHOOLS VS BLACK HAIR

Until we dismantle the continued white domination of post-apartheid South Africa, Mr. Mandela's children will not find freedom in the Rainbow Nation... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA TO WITHDRAW FROM INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane this week formally notified the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, of South Africa's intention to withdraw from the international court... READ MORE›

ALLISTER SPARKS SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNALIST WHO CHALLENGED APARTHEID DIES AT 83

A fifth-generation South African, Mr. Sparks was descended from the country's original British settlers, who arrived in 1820... READ MORE›

Her ruling represented a victory for South African prosecutors who had suffered setbacks in two high-profile trials... READ MORE›

STUDENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA PROTEST SLOW PACE OF CHANGE

Mr. Mahapa 23 grew up in a village with only black South Africans and he graduated at the top of his high school class... READ MORE›

INQUIRY BLAMES SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE IN KILLINGS OF MINERS AT MARIKANA

A pivotal moment it cemented public frustration with the government and the problem of income inequality in South Africa... READ MORE›

ANC SUFFERS MAJOR ELECTION SETBACK IN SOUTH AFRICA

Under its first black party leader, Mmusi Maimane, since last year, the Democratic Alliance appears to have made inroads even in A.N.C... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS CLASH WITH POLICE IN CAPE TOWN OVER TUITION

Mr. Nzimande has said this week that increases would be capped at 6 percent for 2016, but the South African Students Congress is opposing any increase... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICAN BLACK DOLL BREAKS THE BARBIE MOULD IN STYLE

Maite Makgoba hopes her Momppy Mpoppy toy will better reflect reality for young black children, breaking into a market dominated by white figures... READ MORE›

ALLISTER SPARKS, DAUNTLESS SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNALIST, DIES AT 83

Allister Haddon Sparks was born in Cathcart, in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, on March 10, 1933... READ MORE›

HARRY POTTER ACTOR ROBBIE COLTRANE RUSHED TO HOSPITAL AFTER SUFFERING SEVERE FLU SYMPTOMS ON FLIGHT

It's mixed feelings, which is something we've gotten used to as South Africans, Makue told The Associated Press in a telephone interview... READ MORE›

U.S. EMBASSY IN SOUTH AFRICA WARNS OF 'NEAR-TERM' ATTACKS

The German attorney general's office said the men wanted to attack the old town in Dusseldorf in western Germany with suicide bombings, guns and explosives... READ MORE›

UBER TRIES OUT 'PANIC BUTTONS' AFTER ALLEGED RAPE CASES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Eric Risberg AP JOHANNESBURG -- Uber has not been having an easy ride lately in South Africa... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA IMPOSES YEAR-LONG LEOPARD HUNTING BAN FOR 2016

The size of South Africa's leopard population remains a mystery... READ MORE›

PROVOS PANIC AS DRUG GANG'S EUR500K IS TAKEN

No senior IRA figure has ever faced criminal prosecuted for running any of the money laundering or other IRA crime businesses in the Border area... READ MORE›

THE LEAFLET BOMBERS: THE BRITISH RECRUITS WHO FOUGHT APARTHEID FROM WITHIN

He would also tell them that they should not socialise with black South Africans so as not to arouse suspicion... READ MORE›

SELLING APARTHEID: NEW BOOK LAYS BARE SOUTH AFRICAA??S PROPAGANDA WAR

When journalist Ron Nixon was growing up as a young black child in the US his grandmother gave him a magazine about South Africa... READ MORE›

LUISTER: THE VIRAL FILM EXPOSING SOUTH AFRICA'S ONGOING RACISM PROBLEM

Stellenbosch is known as a bastion of white, Afrikaner culture in the new South Africa... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA ARRESTS TWO MEN WITH 41KG OF RHINO-HORN IN ANTI-POACHING OPERATION

Over 1,000 rhinos were killed in South Africa in 2013, its worst ever year for poaching... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA'S STUDENT PROTESTS ARE PART OF A MUCH BIGGER STRUGGLE

Universities are part of a broken system that has failed to address South Africa's enduring inequities, they say... READ MORE›

'I DON'T HAVE TO LOOK UP TO ANYONE' A?? HOW TO THINK LIKE A SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLGIRL

Every August South Africa marks the moment in 1956 when 20 000 women marched against apartheid laws restricting the movement of black people... READ MORE›

MARTIN MCGUINNESS, SINN FEIN OFFICIAL, QUITS NORTHERN IRELAND GOVERNMENT, SETTING OFF SHAKE-UP

Top Catholic Quits Northern Ireland Government Shake-Up Ensues... READ MORE›

MARTIN MCGUINNESS, SINN FEIN OFFICIAL, QUITS NORTHERN IRELAND GOVERNMENT, SETTING OFF SHAKE-UP

Top Catholic Quits Northern Ireland Government Shake-Up Ensues... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA TO QUIT INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

The document was dated October 19, and signed by Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa's minister of international relations and cooperation... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA 'TO WITHDRAW FROM WAR CRIMES COURT'

South Africa has formally begun the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court ICC, accusing it of bias against Africa, media say... READ MORE›

OBAMA CALLS OFF MEETING WITH PHILIPPINE LEADER AFTER 'WHORE' JIBE

Mr Duterte was responding to the US president's promise to raise the issue of drug-related extra-judicial killings in the Philippines at their meeting... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICAA??S RULING PARTY SUFFERING BIGGEST ELECTORAL BLOW

The opposition Democratic Alliance was challenging the African National Congress in both municipalities... READ MORE›

RECENT BREXIT VOTE MAKES PROSPECT OF A UNITED IRELAND SUDDENLY THINKABLE

Protestant unionists are queuing for Irish passports in Belfast and once quiet Catholic nationalists are openly campaigning for a united Ireland, signs of... READ MORE›

PRO-EU SCOTS, NORTHERN IRISH EYE U.K. ESCAPE AFTER BREXIT VOTE

Kenny emerged saying his government's top priority was to minimize damage to Ireland's exports-driven economy, not to open old wounds in Northern Ireland... READ MORE›

SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE: WHERE THE WORLD STANDS

Vietnam, which has fought China over competing South China Sea claims, has been most supportive of the Philippines' case and submitted a statement to the tribunal... READ MORE›

TOP COURT RULES AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA'S ZUMA IN HOUSE RENO SCANDAL

The court said the watchdog's office, established in line with South Africa's post-apartheid constitution, was designed to be a champion of good governance... READ MORE›

OBAMA TO MEET XI AMID RISING SOUTH CHINA SEA TENSIONS

But in recent weeks, China has reportedly positioned more military equipment on disputed islands in the South China Sea... READ MORE›

A CONTROVERSIAL PLAN TO SAVE RHINOS FROM POACHERS

A South African rhino breeder has implemented a controversial plan to save his animals from poachers... READ MORE›