A leading South African trade union official has called on police to stop the violence surrounding the recent strikes in the country's mines.

South African elections results released today show the African National Congress might have fallen short of winning its cherished two-thirds parliamentary majority.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress neared its aim of a two-thirds majority in elections today but lost power in the country’s richest province because of hostility from mixed-race voters.

Zimbabwe turned back a fact-finding delegation from South Africa’s main union group after it landed at the capital’s airport today.

AT least 65 people were killed when a bus plunged into a reservoir in South Africa’s central Free State province yesterday morning, the transport ministry confirmed.