The president of Interpol is to be charged with corruption in his native South Africa.

The South African Supreme Court today dismissed an appeal by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and broker Addy Moolman of their 2003 fraud convictions.

A South African who said he killed three blacks as part of a pact with God today pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted murder.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, was due in court today to face dozens of fraud charges.

South African police today unearthed a large arms cache on a farm in the north of the country, believed to belong to a right wing group plotting to overthrow the government.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the controversial ex-wife of the former South African President, was today found guilty of violating finance rules as an MP.

South African white supremacist leader Eugene TerreBlanche is seeking his freedom after claiming prison has taught him to control his temper.

Apartheid-era germ warfare expert Wouter Basson - dubbed Dr Death - was today cleared of all 46 charges of murder, conspiracy, fraud and drug dealing by a South African court.

The South African government’s muddled Aids policy suffered its most serious blow to date today when a court ordered it make a key drug available to HIV-positive pregnant women Aids activists cheered and embraced after the landmark decision to force the government to distribute the drug nevirapine was read by Pretoria High Court Judge Chris Botha.

Four of the six policemen who admitted setting dogs on three black men in South Africa have been found guilty of assault.

The head of apartheid South Africa’s chemical and biological warfare program said today he had been given unlimited power to further his programme.