South Africa, Africa

JOHANNESBURG Friday, November 14, 2008 (IRIN) - Desmond Doshane, 19, is one of 1.6 million newly registered South African voters. He will be casting...

CAPE TOWN Tuesday, November 18, 2008 (IRIN) - Diane* is a sex worker in South Africa's tourist capital, Cape Town. She spoke to IRIN/PlusNews about...

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (IRIN) - South Africa's newly sworn-in Health Minister, Barbara Hogan, came head-to-head with her first...

CAPE TOWN Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - Somali shopkeeper Abdallah Aman Afrah, 35, has lived in South Africa for five years, but the death of...

CAPE TOWN Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - Aunesi Saidi Omari lives in the Philippi township of Cape Town, South Africa. A refugee from the...

CAPE TOWN Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - As Aunesi Omari and her children cowered in her room in Philippi, a low-income section of the South...

JOHANNESBURG Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - The number of people being treated for cholera in the northern town of Musina, near South Africa's...

AUDITOR-general Terence Nombembe yesterday applied pressure on the Eastern Cape government to do more to improve the management of its finances....

CHRISTMAS spending is expected to be slashed this year as economic uncertainty and a poor consumer outlook continue to squeeze South Africans...

IN AN open revolt in the middle of the matric exams, about 400 angry education staff members forced the departments most senior official out of her...