South African football captain Senzo Meyiwa will be buried on Saturday in his home town of Umlazi after he was shot dead in an apparent robbery.

An African prince who starred in the classic movie Zulu has described how the film’s star Michael Caine was just a shy young actor on set.

South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma personally benefited from the controversial security renovations at his private home and must repay the state, according to a damning watchdog report leaked in a local newspaper.

Officials in South Africa have launched an investigation after the deaths of seven jobseekers who collapsed in the heat while undergoing a fitness test for positions as traffic officers.

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A FAMOUS former rugby player has been arrested in South Africa after allegedly butchering at least three people to death with an axe.

A lightning strike in a remote area of eastern South Africa has killed seven people attending an end-of-year meeting for nursery schools, a government official said today.

A fire has killed 13 children at an orphanage in South Africa today, officials said.

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.

Charlize Theron fought back tears during a recent trip home to South Africa when she saw the mobile AIDS testing and counselling clinic her money had created.

Fires that have swept through parts of South Africa in recent days have killed at least 18 people and damaged power lines, crops, forests and grazing areas.

US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is today set to open an innovative, environmentally-friendly school she funded with the South African government.

Oprah Winfrey headed a celebrity line-up that included Tina Turner and Spike Lee at today’s opening of the talk-show queen’s new school for poor South African girls.

The corruption trial of would-be South African president Jacob Zuma was postponed today until September, and prosecutors may request for an even longer delay.

South Africa’s former deputy president Jacob Zuma faces a judge’s ruling today in a rape case that has sent mixed messages on Aids and sexual violence and tested political loyalties.

South African activists today tried to blockade the country’s borders with Swaziland to protest against the lack of democracy in the continent’s last absolute monarchy.

I HAVE just received a lovely book - Recipes from an African Kitchen, by Josie Stow and Ian Baldwin - from former Ballymaloe student Jane Oxborrow.

A light airplane crashed into a house in North Durban today, seriously injuring all six people aboard, including a family of Austrian tourists, police said.

SOUTH AFRICAN President Thabo Mbeki, celebrating a landslide election victory for his African National Congress (ANC), vowed yesterday to keep his promise to fight poverty in Africa's richest nation.

MILLIONS of enthusiastic South Africans queued to vote in their third post-apartheid election yesterday, with the African National Congress expected to return to power in a landslide.

South Africans vote in national elections for the third time today a mere decade after the country’s first vote to include all racial groups ended white minority rule.

South Africa’s third all-race election will be held on April 14, President Thabo Mbeki announced in Parliament today.

The driver in a minibus crash that killed eight British tourists was not licensed to operate the vehicle, South African officials said tonight.

A long-delayed €33.4m grant from the UN to help combat the Aids pandemic ravaging South Africa was approved by the Johannesburg government, officials said.

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.

A WEEK-OLD baby girl has been raped in South Africa, police said yesterday, making her the youngest victim in a spate of child rapes fuelled by the myth that sex with a virgin cures AIDS.

Some areas in South Africa were declared disaster zones today after heavy rain and snow caused power failures, destroyed homes and trapped commuters, killing at least 22 people.

Wildlife authorities have stopped a South African deep sea diving expedition which planned to broadcast pictures of a giant fish on the internet.

A South African alleged cannibal has been remanded in custody while he undergoes psychiatric tests.

An 80-year-old grandmother is alleged to have driven at more than 100 miles per hour past South African policemen and then ignored their demands to stop.