PRETORIA: With nearly half the votes counted in South Africa's landmark election, the ruling ANC looked certain to extend its 20-year rule on Thursday, but...
PRETORIA: Oscar Pistorius faced a second day of grueling cross-examination in his murder trial on Thursday, as the prosecution accused him of caring more...
PRETORIA: Sobbing uncontrollably, Oscar Pistorius gave a harrowing account Tuesday of the moment he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, before breaking...
PRETORIA: A tearful Oscar Pistorius apologised Monday to Reeva Steenkamp's family, telling the court he had "terrible nightmares" since killing...
PRETORIA: Two families sat on the same wooden bench in a South African High Court Monday, one mourning their beloved daughter Reeva Steenkamp, another...
JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela left his roughly $4.1-million estate to his wife Graca Machel, family members, staff, schools and the ANC, according to a summary...
PRETORIA: The last day of Nelson Mandela's formal lying in state on Friday was overwhelmed by mourners desperate to say a final, personal farewell to the...
PRETORIA: A South African court began Monday sentencing 20 right-wing extremists convicted of high treason for a plot to kill Nelson Mandela and drive blacks...
JOHANNESBURG: A South African commission of inquiry accused police of lying about the shooting dead of 34 striking miners in Marikana last year, in a searing...
JOHANNESBURGL: A union leader was shot dead and another wounded at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine in South Africa on Monday amid heightened tensions...
JOHANNESBURG: Global peace icon Nelson Mandela has spent the night in hospital after being admitted for a "scheduled medical checkup," with no...
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, charged with shooting dead his girlfriend Thursday, was publicly adored but has a rocky...
RUSTENBURG, South Africa: Some of the 12,000 miners sacked by the world's largest platinum producer in South Africa on Saturday gathered to protest their...
PRETORIA: A South African court on Monday freed the first batch of 270 miners arrested for the killing of 34 fellow workers who were gunned down by police in...
PRETORIA: A South African court Monday convicted the last of 20 men accused of high treason for a plot to kill Nelson Mandela and drive blacks out of the...
JOHANNESBURG: Fridges might fly and beds fall from the sky as residents in Johannesburg’s Hillbrow district see in the New Year by throwing broken...