South Africa, Africa

Some 2,000 people fleeing violence against foreigners in Cape Town boarded a special train on Saturday to take them to Johannesburg, from where they...

The South African army has been called in to bolster police efforts to end the xenophobic clashes that have gripped the country's richest province. ...

The linguistic skills of Zimbabwean national Patrick Ndlovu, 29, saved him when he was accosted by three Zulu-speaking men in the Johannesburg suburb...

Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has said today that he will be standing for...

More than 50 protesting Zimbabweans were beaten up and 11 members of the activist organisation, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), were arrested in the...

The stories of children who travel alone in Southern Africa tell of beatings at the hands of the authorities, of their possessions being taken, of...

Twenty years into the pandemic, people are looking for new ways to live with HIV, and for some alternative medicine has become part of the answer. ...

There were conflicting reports about the whereabouts of a Chinese ship, laden with a cargo of small arms destined for Zimbabwe, after it was turned...

The authorities have yet to isolate the source of cholera that killed two residents of Soweto, South Africa's largest township, on the southwestern...

The Italian ambassador to South Africa died in a car accident Saturday while hunting and on a game viewing safari in Limpopo province. At least two...