South Africa’s governing ANC party is to take legal action to remove a painting from an exhibition that ridicules the party and the president with graphic imagery.

A South African white supremacist leader was bludgeoned to death by two of his farm workers in an apparent wage dispute, police said, but his followers today blamed a fiery youth leader for a “hate speech” which they claim led to his killing.

South Africa’s parliament elected Jacob Zuma as president today, cheering the astonishing rise of a self-educated teenage goatherder who transformed himself into the leader of Africa’s economic powerhouse.

Final results from South Africa's elections give the long-dominant ANC party a clear victory, but not the two-thirds majority it hoped for.

Final results from South Africa’s elections give the long-dominant ANC party a clear victory but not the two-thirds majority it hoped for.